The Congress appointed Praveen Chakravarty, who currently heads the Data Analytics Department of the party, as Chairman of All India Professionals’ Congress (AIPC). He has replaced Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, who was the founder chairman of the body.
The unit, a brain child of former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was founded in 2017 to act as an additional feeder organisation to the parent party and giving a platform to professionals who are interested in politics. Taking over the position, Mr. Chakravarty lauded the work done by Mr. Tharoor. “I am well aware that Shashi’s shoes are impossibly large to fill. AIPC under Shashi has done a stellar job in organising professionals into a formal group. It is now time to turn it into a formidable group,” Mr. Chakravarty said in a statement here.
