Core Group members of Professionals Party Of India will visit city for talent hunt of ‘real’ candidates with ‘national vision’

 

Paras K Jha

While it is common knowledge that our mixed bag of politicians is thoroughly ‘unprofessional’ while handling matters of the state, it will be worth a watch if the country finally elects thoroughbred professionals to run the country. While it sounds different, it might be just the difference that country’s majority of middle-class voters are looking for.

 

Some professionals in the country have taken up the job of cleansing the system on which the country runs and bring about a change in it. Adhering to the adage that one needs to be on top of the system to change it, these professionals have floated their own political party – the Professionals Party Of India (PPI). Three core group PPI members are on a visit to the city to start the party’s chapters in Gujarat.

 

Talking to DNA about the party’s visions and its strategy, R V Krishnan, 

 

president of PPI said, “A system can be corrected only from the top. You cannot change a sick company by changing its workers; you have to change its managing director. Hence, we want to change the system from the top”, he said.

 

The party has also put its manifestos on the party’s official website. “We don’t want to go against any individual but we want to change the system which is a mess and people have somehow adjusted themselves to a totally failed system”, said Krishnan, who is a chemical engineer by profession and has put in 36 years in the industry both in India and abroad.Krishnan has been working with a very specialized market research company in Pune since 1989. “Our aim is to contest on 110 seats in the coming parliamentary elections and in Gujarat we are planning to contest from two seats”, he said.

The PPI plans to start chapters in various cities, where party 

members can meet people and propagate the vision of the party as well as identify candidates for contesting in  

the parliamentary elections. Talking about the section of society which the PPI is planning to influence, Krishnakumar Iyer, spokesperson of PPI said, “We will focus on the country’s middle class section, which has become very cynical because of the present political situation and are thinking and discussing internally to bring about the change in the system. We want to go to them and put our vision and take them with us, as only a small part of middle class goes for voting during elections, while political parties win by giving money to the poor and needy people”, said Iyer, who has 22 years of international IT experience while working for blue-chip companies including Mastek, Siemens, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers across countries like Singapore, Australia and the US.

 

Iyer is currently teaching in a top B-school and is in the process of setting up his own training academy to enhance skills of IT engineers.