Charu Pragya

Charu Pragya is a lawyer-politician who heads the National Legal Cell of the BJP's Youth Wing. She is also a National TV Panelist for BJP and she speaks on issues relating to governance, policy, local civic issues, education and social-rural programs. A passionate social reformer, Ms Pragya is a crusader for women’s rights and runs free legal aid centers for women across India. Her work has helped build a network of lawyers who provide free of cost legal assistance to those in need. With her roots in rural Uttar Pradesh and her feet in urban New Delhi, she works to bridge the social justice gap between rural and urban India. She also organises training workshops & legal awareness camps for women and youth across the country. She has an interest in Environment, Sustainable Development, Education & Agri- Tech and is engaged with various social entrepreneurship initiatives, specially for women. She holds BLS-LLB degree from Government Law College, University of Mumbai. Charu is a Fellow of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung School for Young Politicians, Alumni of Australia-India Youth Dialogue and has completed the Oxford Innovation Leadership in Public Policy course. She represented India at the Madrid Forum on Democracy where 35 nations were represented and has presented a lecture at the Election Bridge Conference in Myanmar (Asia-Pacific). She is on the Governing Body of Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, a panel member of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and has won medals at both the International & National Level in Pistol Shooting. In her free time, she loves traveling and exploring new places and cultures, reading, writing and working to make our planet a little bit more green.