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Chitra Sarwara (Hindi: चित्रा सरवारा) is a politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress. She currently holds the post of National General Secretary and Social Media Incharge of All India Mahila Congress. She has also served as Senior Vice President, Spokesperson and Coordinator for Observers and Co-observers of Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee.
She was elected as a Corporator of Ambala Municipal Corporation, Haryana, on June 13, 2013.
Early life and education
Sarwara is the daughter of former Congress minister Nirmal Singh. She completed her early education at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala and Bhartiya Public SchoolinAmbala Cantt .Later, Sarwara completed her schooling from Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai, Sonipat in 1994.
She was a National Volleyball player, winning 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 graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 2000 as an Industrial Designer specializing in Furniture design.
Career
She has worked with Tesseract Design in Bangalore and then went on to Idiom Design and Consulting Banglore. 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.
Sarwara quit the BJP in October 2019 in protest after Jasbir Singh Malour was chosen as the party's candidate for a congressional seat instead of her father Nirmal Singh. She criticized the party for what her and her father described as a betrayal, and backed him as an independent nominee representing Ambala City in the congressional race.
Sarwara also ran for a congressional seat representing the Ambala Cantonment. She lost to Anil Vij, coming in second with a total of 36.48% of the votes.
Political career
- In 2013, Elected as an independent Municipal Corporator from Ambala Cantt, a newly formed Corporation.
- In March 2015, she joined Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee as a State Coordinator for Observers & Co-observers of Rohtak- Karnal Division (Minus Bhiwani and Kaithal) and as a spokesperson under the leadership of the dynamic State President Smt. Sumitra Chauhan.
- In 2016 she was appointed Senior Vice President of the Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee.
- In 2017 she was appointed Social Media Incharge for All India Mahila Congress during the tenure of AIMC Pres Smt. Shobha Oza and started the first concerted effort by the Organisation to build its online presence through Website and other social media platforms.
- 13th Dec 2017: All India Mahila Congress Website was launched by Indian National Congress President Sh. Rahul Gandhi during a Mahila Congress workshop - The Way Ahead, organised under the aegis of Sushmita Dev, President AIMC.
- 2018 appointed as Secretary, All India Mahila Congress .
- Coming from a Design background and with immense interest in developing identity and organisations, Chitra picked up the long standing project of developing an individual identity/logo for Mahila Congress.
- 7th August 2018, Mahila Congress Logo and Flagwas launched by INC President Sh. Rahul Gandhi during the Mahila Adhikaar Sammelan.
- 30th Aug 2018 appointed as General Secretary, All India Mahila Congress
