Rahul hold meeting of All India Professionals' Congress

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today held a meeting of the newly-formed All India Professionals' Congress and urged it to help the country's professionals connect with the Congress and bring their voices into politics and policy making.
"We have formed All India Professionals' Congress. We invite the country's professionals and want their voices to be included in politics and policy making in the country," he told reporters.
"Great to have Shashi (Tharoor) and Milind (Deora) build a platform to bring the voices of working professionals into politics," he said on Twitter.
The Congress has created two new organisational departments -- Professionals Congress and Unorganised Workers Congress -- to reach out to tax-paying professionals and unorganised workers as part of its revival plan.

Besides its chairman Tharoor, those who attended today's meeting at the AICC headquarters included Deora, Geeta Reddy, Gaurav Gogoi and Salman Soz, who have been appointed coordinators of West, South, East and North zones.
The Congress wing has been formed to help integrate the educated tax-paying professionals of the country and their aspirations for the future of India into the Congress's political system.

"This is all a part of reviving the party. This is one more step to say the Congress continues to be a vibrant party," Tharoor said.
The Congress is seeking to give an opportunity to such people channelise their imagination, energies, professional skills and ideas to help meet their aspirations in India.

He said the initiative aims at having a decentralised, democratic platform with chapter in every city, but there will be a fellowship fee of Rs 1,000 so that it is not going to be like the BJP's missed calls and "fake members".
He said some people have interest in politics but stay detached from it because they feel that professional work is different and that they have no access to the political world.
"Very often they have bright minds, political ideas but have no idea how to connect to the political process. They feel that the political process has no room for them," he said yesterday.

The office-bearers today discussed the future strategy.