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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]
- ^ Bureau, The Hindu (15 November 2023). "Praveen Chakravarty takes over from Shashi Tharoor to head All India Professionals' Congress". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Economist Praveen Chakravarty Named Congress' Data Analytics Head". The Quint. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ Prime, E. T. "Talk to the hand: Can nerds help revive the Congress party?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ "NYAY". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ "The inside account of Abhijit Banerjee's Nyay connection". 16 October 2019.
- ^ "About". Noise To Signal. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ Nair, Sobhana K. (13 September 2021). "Congress eyes Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 September 2021.