New Delhi

Congress’ Praveen Chakravarty, who took charge as the Chairman of All India Professional Congress (AIPC) on Thursday, said party leader Shashi Tharoor did a stellar job in organising professionals and his shoes were impossibly large to be filled.

Chakravarty was appointed as the new chairman of the AIPC by replacing Tharoor.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had approved Chakravarty’s appointment as the chairman of the AIPC on Wednesday night.

After taking charge as the Chairman of the AIPC, Chakravarty in a statement said: The Indian National Congress came into being as an organisation of the professional classes, steeped in liberal thought who endeavoured to learn the art of governing – Journal of Asian Studies, 1966.

AIPC is a frontal organisation that acts as a bridge between working professionals and the party.Chakravarty, who headed the Data Analytics Department of the Congress and saidthat professionals have played a pioneering and a pivotal role in securing independence for our country, in the founding of our Republic and in the building of our nation.

He cited the roles of several professionals who were members of Congress and played an important role in independence. Chakravarty, who is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and Wharton School in Philadelphia said that post Independence, the Republic of India was nurtured, nourished and built by many professionals.

One of modern India’s greatest nation builders, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, is a quintessential professional, Chakravarty, who replaced Tharoor after his elevation as a Working Committee (CWC) member in August earlier this year said.