"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.
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.
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"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 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.