Introduction: Professionals Party of India

Professionals Party of India (PPI) is a dignified constitutional platform for India’s middle class to rightfully participate in our political process fearlessly. PPI comprises professionals from every walk of life and is an excellent medium for everyone to give voice to their concerns and participate in result oriented political change. It is now registered with the Election Commission of India under the Representation of the People Act.

PPI is a movement, born out of years of painstaking research to identify pragmatic and actionable, India centric solutions, customized to India’s unique demographic, social, cultural and economic conditions.

Many believe that the single biggest cause of India’s abject poverty and consequent physical and economic squalor is the steady and progressive degeneration in the quality of India’s political managers. Also, a majority of India’s problems have now become systemic.

On the other hand, India born, India educated Indians run many global corporations which operate in hundreds of countries worldwide, with a turnover of thousands of crores of rupees, employing millions of people of every nationality. Why, some of the richest people in the world are India born and India educated Indians!

Now if this is the formidable professional competence of qualified, professional Indians, why is it that India – their native land - has remained a poor, squalid, backward, corrupt and crime ridden third world country with a depressing quality of life?

Why, after six decades of self governance, 300 million Indians are below the poverty line, electricity and water are acutely short, 35 million cases and perhaps thousands of innocents are languishing in courts and jails, there is widespread illiteracy, we are counted among the most corrupt nations, hardened criminals sit in Parliament, there are no roads, policing is barbaric, women’s health is pathetic, animals are treated inhumanely, water and air are polluted like a cesspool, there is real threat of foreign insurgents who are believed to have usurped large parts of several states already, there is no quality of life and we are descending into a violent and primitive society?

Why? Why? Why?

That is because governance in India has been hijacked mostly by the wily and the unenlightened, often through unconstitutional means. Complete evaporation of the political value system and the universal degeneration that surrounds you, is the inevitable outcome.

And qualified professional Indians have merely stood and helplessly watched in horror. They have had no way of reaching positions of governance. Many have fled.

Not any more!!

PPI was conceived because the only strategic solution was that a new political party be formed - a Party that will tickle the consciousness of Indians - inevitably targeting first the middle class, to motivate them to get involved in the democratic political process and ensure that professional patriotic Indians get elected to our Parliament and solve systemic problems top down.

The multi dimensional research revealed the seven dimensions that most impact the Indian quality of life. Solutions in each of these dimensions are contained in the Party Manifesto. It is evident that if the Manifesto is implemented, India shall cease to be a third world country in 5 years’ time.

PPI will succeed because PPI’s strategy is completely different in three critical respects :
A. PPI is not a personality driven endeavor. It is driven by progressive professionals and is devoid of sycophancy.
B. PPI initially targets that section of Indians who are conscious to the need for change. PPI is therefore very focused.
C. PPI is determined to bring systemic change top down, not bottom up.

PPI proclaims that citizens of India need not dread getting involved because of “dirty politics”. Because it is the politicians who are dirty and not politics! Mahatma Gandhi was also a politician, but he was clean.