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| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1954|12|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = [[Howrah]], [[West Bengal]]

| residence = [[Sainik Farms]], [[New Delhi]]

| office1            = Editor-in-Chief, [[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]]

| term_start1        = 2013

| office2             = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]

| constituency3       = [[List of nominated members of the Rajya Sabha|Nominated]]

| term_start3         = 27 August 2003

| term_end3           = 26 August 2009

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| party              = [[All India Trinamool Congress]] (2018-present)

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| otherparty = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (2010-2018)

| spouse = Shobori Ganguli

| children = Two sons

| father = Monindra Nath Mitra

| alma_mater = [[Delhi University]] ([[B.A.|BA]], [[M.A.|MA]])<br>[[Oxford University]] ([[DPhil]])  

| profession = Journalist/Writer

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'''Chandan Mitra''' ({{lang-bn|চন্দন মিত্র}}) (born 12 December 1955) is an [[India]]n journalist, presently editor and managing director of ''[[The Pioneer (daily)|The Pioneer]]'' newspaper in [[Delhi]]. He was nominated as a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] during August 2003 to August 2009. He was elected to another term in the Rajya Sabha, as a [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] MP from [[Madhya Pradesh]], in June 2010. He joined [[All India Trinamool Congress]] in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url =https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/bjp-now-government-in-waiting-in-bengal-says-tmcs-chandan-mitra-4020401.html|title =BJP now 'government-in-waiting' In Bengal, says TMC's Chandan Mitra|publisher =[[Moneycontrol]] |quote =Chandan Mitra, a former BJP cadre, who joined TMC last year, admitted that he was taken aback by the saffron party's spectacular performance|date =May 27, 2019|accessdate =20 April 2020}} </ref>

== Personal life ==

Mitra was educated at [[La Martiniere Calcutta]], where he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal in 1971{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}. He was a batchmate of [[Swapan Dasgupta]] and [[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta]] at La Martiniere, and all three went up to [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]], [[Delhi University]], together. At St. Stephen's, Mitra and [[Shashi Tharoor]] were to become great friends and Mitra even became campaign manager for Tharoor's successful campaign to become President of the college's student union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/item/48245-a-confessional-tale-of-elusive-elections.html |title=A Confessional Tale of Elusive Elections|accessdate=2011-02-23}}</ref> Mitra received an MA and M.Phil in History at Delhi University as well. He taught for a short while at [[Hansraj College]].

In 1984, he was awarded a doctorate degree at [[Oxford University]], where he was a member of [[Magdalen College]], for the thesis "Political mobilisation and the nationalism movement in India – a study of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, 1936-1942" written under supervision of the noted Indian historian [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]]{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}.

Mitra is married to Shobori Ganguly.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

Mitra started in journalism as Assistant Editor with ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' in [[Kolkata]] before he moved to the ''[[Times of India]]'' in Delhi and then ''[[The Sunday Observer]]''; he went on to become Editor of the paper, and later moved to the ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' as Executive Editor. Mitra left to join ''[[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)|The Pioneer]]'' as Editor, and eventually bought control of the newspaper from the Thapar family in 1998 when industrialist [[L. M. Thapar]] decided to cut his losses.<ref>[http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/23D22B2F773FF0BC6525694200313A97 Editor steps in to save The Pioneer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216044315/http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/clippings.nsf/(docid)/23D22B2F773FF0BC6525694200313A97 |date=16 February 2012 }}, ''The Times Of India'', 12 May 1998. Retrieved 2011-05-25.</ref>

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