Praveen Chakravarty | |
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President All India Professionals Congress | |
Assumed office 15 November 2023 | |
Preceded by | Shashi Tharoor |
Personal details | |
Born | India |
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Occupation | venture capital and banking |
Website | www |
Praveen Chakravarty is an Indian politician belonging to the Congress Party. He took over as chairperson of the All India Professionals' Congress from Shashi Tharoor on 15 November 2023.[1] He is the Chairman of the Data Analytics department, appointed by Rahul Gandhi.[2] He is the brains behind SHAKTI, a project that was created to modernise the Congress party.[3] He along with P.Chidambaram drafted the NYAY scheme for the party's 2019 election manifesto with help from Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijit Banerjee among others.[4][5]
Chakravarty was a political economist scholar in a think tank, an investment banker and angel investor before entering politics.[6] It was widely reported that Chakravarty will be the Congress candidate for Member of Parliament of the Upper House in 2021 from the state of Tamil Nadu.[7]
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