 He was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).Earlier he was in the Central Committee of the Students Federation of India and a founder member of the SFI in Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Later in 1980 he was the founder All India treasurer of the Democratic Youth Federation of India and became the Vice-President in 1984.Chopra was born on 24 December 1941 in Lahore.