Prodyut Bora
Prodyut Bora is an Indian politician and social activist. He is the founder and current chief of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was a National Executive Committee member of the Bharatiya Janata Party until he decided to leave the party in 2015. In 2024 he merged his party in Indian National Congress.
Background
Bora was born into a Koch Rajbongshi family. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and an MBA from IIMA in 1999.Political career
In 2004, Bora started his political career as a member of BJP's National Media Cell, the party's in-house communication and public relations unit.National Convener, IT Cell (2007–09)
In 2007, Bora was elevated and appointed as the National Convener of BJP IT Cell. The IT Cell was BJP's newest organisational unit, and Bora was its first head. The IT Cell had 3 roles: automate the Party organisation; attract IT professionals to the Party; and advise the Party on IT Policy issues. With that mandate, Bora set up cells in 22 states across the country. He also automated the party by creating an organisational IT ecosystem using open-source software. His efforts became the subject of a case study.In November 2008, Bora was selected to run the communications office of BJP's Prime Ministerial Candidate for the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections, LK Advani. He designed and launched the campaign website of Advani, one of India's most visited websites with an average of 3 million page views per month.
As a part of the 2009 campaign team, he was also instrumental in producing BJP's IT Vision document.