In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the Congress party plans to reach out to over eight million gig workers and provide them with a platform to raise their issues, Praveen Chakravarty, the newly appointed chief of the All India Professional Congress (AIPC), said on Sunday.
Mr. Chakravarty, who replaced Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor as the AIPC’s head, told The Hindu that he would expand the conventional definition of professionals to include people engaged in the gig economy.
“I actually call them gig professionals, not workers. There are 80 lakh people in the gig economy and that’s more than all the professionals employed by the formal sector companies on the stock exchange,” he said.
