Jitin Prasada, two-time Congress MP, joins BJP ahead of next year’s Uttar Pradesh elections

Jitin Prasad has joined the BJP in presence of Piyush Goyal in New Delhi right this moment.

In a setback for Congress a yr forward of the Uttar Pradesh elections, former union minister Jitin Prasada right this moment joined the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) within the presence of Union minister Piyush Goyal and social gathering chief Anil Baluni at its headquarters in Delhi. Prasada is a two-time Lok Sabha MP however had misplaced to BJP’s Rekha Verma from Dhaurahra in 2014 and 2019. Whereas he stood third within the 2019 polls, he was positioned fourth within the 2014 polls.

Jitin Prasada becoming a member of the BJP is being seen as a setback for the Congress social gathering’s Uttar Pradesh plan as he was within the core group of Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi.

Prasada is being termed as a prize catch for the BJP as he’s a identified Brahmin face in central UP and may gain advantage the saffron social gathering within the upcoming election.

Previous to becoming a member of the BJP, Jitin Prasada met Union Residence Minister Amit Shah on the latter’s residence.

After becoming a member of the BJP, Prasada mentioned that he was unable to assist folks whereas in Congress. He additionally thanked PM Narendra Modi, Residence Minister Amit Shah and different senior BJP leaders for the chance. He mentioned that he’ll work as a BJP employee with the motto of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikash’.

The previous Congress chief mentioned that if there’s any institutional social gathering at current within the nation, it’s the BJP. “Different events have grow to be of people and regional identities,” mentioned Prasada.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal mentioned that Jitin has been working for the folks of Uttar Pradesh from a really younger age. Goyal recalled how Prasada adopted a railway mission to get the work carried out even after the BJP authorities got here to energy in 2014.

Jitin Prasada is the son of late Congress chief Jitendra Prasada. He had been the MoS Metal in UPA-I and Minister of State, Petroleum and Pure Gasoline, Street Transport and Highways, and Human Useful resource Improvement in UPA-II.

Prasada was among the many G23 Congress dissenters and had additionally confronted protest from throughout the social gathering.