Karti Chidambaram was born on 16 November 1971 and is an Indian politician, businessman and lawyer.
27 Facts About Karti Chidambaram
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Karti Chidambaram was elected in the 2019 Indian general election and 2024 Indian general election, winning the seat held seven times by his father, P Chidambaram.
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Karti Chidambaram's was born to Nalini Chidambaram and P Chidambaram in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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Karti Chidambaram earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business at University of Texas at Austin in 1993.
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Karti Chidambaram later earned Bachelor of Laws from Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1995.
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Karti Chidambaram became a member of party and served as P Chidambaram's election manager in Sivaganga.
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Karti Chidambaram ran for the seat again in the 2019 Indian general election, and won.
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Karti Chidambaram is married to Srinidhi Rangarajan, a Bharathanatyam dancer and physician who works with the Apollo Hospitals Group in Chennai.
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Karti Chidambaram has been associated with tennis for over three decades.
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Karti Chidambaram is the Secretary-General of the Indian Tennis Players Association.
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Karti Chidambaram has held the position of Chairman of the Organising Committee for Chennai Open and was a former vice-president of the All India Tennis Association.
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Karti Chidambaram is currently the vice-president for the Tamil Nadu Tennis Association.
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Karti Chidambaram is the President of the Tenpin Bowling Federation of India and Chief Patron of the All India Karate-Do Federation.
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Karti Chidambaram is a member of the inaugural class of the India Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Institute, Chairman of the Asia 21 India Chapter of The Asia Society, co-founder of the Chennai Chapter of Young Entrepreneurs Organisation, and co-founder of www.
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Karti Chidambaram is alleged to be involved in Aircel-Maxis and Sequoia Capital case.
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Karti Chidambaram's name was mentioned in connection with these transactions.
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On 29 February 2016, the Pioneer newspaper reported that Karti Chidambaram was involved in extensive international business activities, many of them involving various tax havens.
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On 2 March 2016, Karti Chidambaram repeated his claim that he was neither a shareholder nor a director of Advantage and that he knew nothing about Sequoia.
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The ED believed that Karti Chidambaram was at the centre of these transactions.
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On 5 July 2016, Karti Chidambaram failed to appear at the ED in response to a summons in connection with the Aircel-Maxis probe.
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The ED was investigating alleged violations of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the part of Advantage and Chess Global Advisory Services Pvt Ltd, of which Karti Chidambaram was a director.
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The Madras High Court stayed the LOC against Karti Chidambaram stating that the issuance of the circular the day after issuing a summons to him was unwarranted.
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The petition stated that the centre had been pursuing a politically motivated vendetta against the petitioner's family and the issuance of the LOC is the latest in a series of concerted actions by the Central government's agencies to damage the reputation of Karti Chidambaram and discredit his father, P Chidambaram.
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In 2017, Karti Chidambaram initiated a campaign against corruption in elections.
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In February 2018, Karti Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI in a money laundering case, where he was accused of receiving Rs.
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Karti Chidambaram was granted bail by a different bench of the Delhi High Court.
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In May 2019, Karti Chidambaram approached the Supreme court for return of his amount deposited for travelling abroad.