Atishi

Atishi was born on 8 June 1981 to Vijay Singh and Tripta Wahi, both professors at the University of Delhi. She graduated in History from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She then completed postgraduate degrees in Education and History at the University of Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar and a Radhakrishnan-Chevening Scholar. She joined the Aam Aadmi Party in 2013. From July 2015 to April 2018 she was adviser to then Education Minister Manish Sisodia.

Atishi became Chief Minister of Delhi on 21 September 2024, after the resignation of Arvind Kejriwal. Her term ended on 20 February 2025, when Rekha Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in as Chief Minister. The BJP won 48 seats in the 2025 Delhi Assembly election, unseating AAP from its decade-long rule.

On 23 February 2025 the AAP legislative party unanimously elected her Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. She retained her Kalkaji seat in the 2025 election, defeating Ramesh Bidhuri of the Bharatiya Janata Party.