Atishi Marlena Singh is an Indian politician, educator, and political activist. She is a member of the Political Affairs Committee of Aam Aadmi Party. She served as an advisor to the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, primarily on education, from July 2015 to 17 April 2018, when she was sacked by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs for holding an unapproved designation. after Delhi's Education Minister Manish Sisodia credited her with being the architect of Delhi's education reforms. Although always interested in public policy, Atishi observed the 2011 Indian Anti-corruption movement as a sceptical outsider, believing that single-issue campaigns were ineffective. In January 2013, she became involved in policy formulation for the AAP, which has its roots in that movement. Atishi serves as a member of the party's apex executive body, the Political Affairs Committee. Recently, she was also appointed as the Lok Sabha in-charge for the East Delhi constituency. She was appointed Spokesperson of the party in 2013 and has been representing the party on television debates ever since. Atishi has been appointed as the Lok Sabha in-charge for South-East Delhi for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. She contested from the East Delhi parliamentary constituency as an AAP party candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. She lost to BJP's candidate Gautam Gambhir by a margin of 4.77 lakh votes, coming a distant third in the tally .