Chitra Sarwara

Her father is a politician who started his career in the 1970s with Indian Youth Congress, Haryana.

He has been a member of Haryana Legislative Assembly for four terms from Naggal Constituency.

Chitra Sarwara has three siblings- two younger brothers, UdayVir Singh and Chetak Singh and also a younger sister Noor Sarwara.

Digvijay Singh Chahal, 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.

Chitra Sarwara (Hindi: चित्रा सरवारा; born 18 March 1975) is daughter of Nirmal Singh Mohra and a second generation politician.

She was a former member of Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal and was appointed as State Vice President, Haryana since April 2023.

She joined Indian National Congress on January 2024.

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.

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.

She has also served as Senior Vice President Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee.

Chitra Sarwara was born on 18 March 1975, at Ambala Cantt, Haryana, to Nirmal Singh
and Naib Kaur.

She represented Haryana in the National School Volleyball Championship in Purnia, Bihar in 1993 which was won by the Haryana team.

She later joined and completed her schooling from Motilal Nehru School of Sports, 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 has attended India Camp in Bangalore and represented India against Sri Lanka in 1994 in volleyball matches.

She graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad as an industrial designer specializing in furniture design.

She worked with Tesseract Design in Bangalore and then went on to Idiom Design and Consulting 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.

The Light Within (TLW): Launched as an informal professional and social networking platform for women in Ambala.

Idea was to get women professionals, achievers and contributors from diverse fields to work together, pool efforts and do something to make a difference to improve our lives and society.

Under TLW, organised preparatory workshops in all Ambala Government Senior Secondary Schools to help students ready for exams with tips and tricks on stress management, memory enhancement and how to attempt exams under this banner.

Organised workshops on menstrual hygiene for distributing free sanitary napkins amongst girl children from financially challenged backgrounds in collaboration with NGOs, Gynecologists and social workers.

Later on TLW Transformed into Nari Shakti with wider base and more widespread activities.

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

- Welfare Information Helpline: In 2013, collaborating with enthusiastic youngsters and Team Suraksha team.

It's a toll free social welfare Information helpline, where anyone can call and receive details of various Social Welfare Schemes provided by Government of Haryana and correct information on Forms, due procedures, offices involved.

grew from a mere helpline to camps where teams led by Chitra would visit an area, complete with free forms of schemes, printers for scanning documents and stamps for sign and have mass form verification/ filling camps for all those who needed to apply for any government scheme.

still continues as a toll-free call service.

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.

She did her early schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala and Bhartiya Public School in Ambala Cantt.

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.

Her grandfather Hazara Singh Sarwara was an English and Urdu teacher and her grandmother Chinto Devi was a homemaker.