Chitra Sarwara

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Chitra Sarwara
Chitra Sarwara Rally.jpg
Born (1975-03-18) 18 March 1975 (age 49)
Ambala Cantt, Haryana, India
Occupation(s)Politician, Social Activist, Designer
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse
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(m. 2005)​
[1]
Children2
Parent Nirmal Singh [2]
Naib Kaur
RelativesUdayVir Singh(Brother)
Chetak Singh(Brother)
Noor Sarwara(Sister)
Chitrangada Singh
(sister-in-law)
Website www.chitrasarwara.com

Chitra Sarwara (born 18 March 1975) is daughter of Chaudhary Nirmal Singh Mohra and a second generation politician. She was a former member of Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal [3] and was appointed as State Vice President, Haryana since April 2023. She joined Indian National Congress in January 2024.

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Prior to this, Chitra held the post of In charge North Zone, Aam Aadmi Party as Haryana, for nearly 1 year from June 2022 to March 2023. In her tenure AAP Haryana contested and won Zila Parishad Chairman, Zila Parishad members and an overall vote percentage of 13.89% in north zone alone. [4]

Before this, she was National General Secretary Incharge Organization & Treasurer for Haryana Democratic Front-HDF, an independent registered political body in Haryana.

Erstwhile, as an Indian National Congress member, she has served as National General Secretary and Social Media Incharge for All India Mahila Congress. [5] [6] She has also served as Senior Vice President Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee. [7]

She was elected as a Municipal Corporator of Ambala Municipal Corporation, Haryana, on 13 June 2013.

In October 2019, She contested Vidhan Sabha from Ambala Cantt, Haryana, as an independent candidate and came second garnering more than 44.5 thousand votes.

Early life

Chitra Sarwara was born on 18 March 1975 in Ambala Cantt, Haryana. She is the daughter of Chaudhary Nirmal Singh Mohra, a four-term member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from the Naggal Constituency, and Naib Kaur. [2] Chitra has three siblings: two younger brothers, Uday Vir Singh and Chetak Singh, and a younger sister, Noor Sarwara.

She did her early schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala [8] and Bhartiya Public School [9] in Ambala Cantt. She later joined and completed her schooling from Motilal Nehru School of Sports, [10] Rai, Sonipat in 1994.

She is an international Volleyball player, having won many State and National titles as a part of the Rai team. She represented Haryana in the National School Volleyball Championship in Purnia, Bihar in 1993 which was won by the Haryana team. She has attended India Camp in Bangalore and represented India against Sri Lanka in 1994 in volleyball matches. She graduated from National Institute of Design, [11] Ahmedabad as an industrial designer specializing in furniture design.

She worked with Tesseract Design [12] in Bangalore and then went on to Idiom Design and Consulting [13] Bangalore. In Delhi, she worked as an independent design consultant and eventually as Design Head of the Delhi office of Idiom Design and Consulting.

While with Idiom Design and Consulting, she was Design Manager for developing the 2010 Commonwealth Games Image and Look program which involved developing the games branding from Logo to application of Image and Look program across city and collaterals.

Political career

Personal life

Her grandfather Chaudhary Hazara Singh Sarwara was an English and Urdu teacher and her grandmother Chinto Devi was a homemaker. She married Digvijay Singh Chahal, [1] an international professional golfer and Son of Col. Niranjan Singh. The couple has two children, a daughter and a son. Their son was born with a rare and fatal disorder, biliary atresia that would affect and damage his liver completely. In December 2016, when he was merely 8 months old and in need of a liver transplant, Chitra donated her liver (part of it) to her child. [7]

Social activities

Positions held

Agitations

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