Pilot, whose ancestral village is Vaidpura in Noida belongs to the Bidhuri clan of Gurjar community, is an MBA from Wharton Business School, USA. He is a graduate from St Stephens College, Delhi and has a a diploma in Marketing from IMT, Ghaziabad.
Pilot was the first Union minister to be commissioned as a regular officer in the Territorial Army in 2006, fulfilling his desire to follow in his father's footsteps. He became an MP at the age of 26.
Congress sources said Pilot would take over as PCC chief on January 21, the day the first meeting of the Pradesh Election Committee to decide candidates for Lok Sabha polls would be held.
