Father was the political advisor to Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao, he himself was Minister of State for HRD… Know, who’s Jitin Prasada who joined BJP?

Shreyansh Tripathi, Lucknow Jitin Prasada, who began his political journey from the youth wing of the Congress get together 20 years in the past, began a brand new political journey on Wednesday. Jitin Prasada has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party within the presence of Union Minister Piyush Goyal and BJP Chief JP Nadda. Jitin Prasada has been a minister within the Manmohan Singh authorities up to now and was known as one of many well-liked younger faces of the Congress in UP. He has been one of many leaders near Rahul Gandhi and the Congress wished to make use of him as an enormous face within the mobilization of Brahmin votes within the state. Prasad’s father Jitendra Prasad has been the Vice President of Congress and political advisor to former Congress Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Jitin Prasad was born on 29 November 1973 in Shahjahanpur district of UP. His father Jitendra Prasad was one of many massive leaders of Congress. Jitendra Prasad was one of many very shut leaders of Rajiv Gandhi. Jitendra Prasad was the Vice President of Congress and political advisor to former PMs Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao. At the identical time, Baba Jyoti Prasad of Jitin Prasad was additionally a senior chief of the Congress get together. Jitin’s great-grandmother was the niece of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Jitin Prasad, who was educated from Doon School and Delhi’s well-known Shri Ram College of Commerce, began his political journey in 2001 by changing into the General Secretary of the Youth Wing of Congress. In 2004, Jitin Prasad was a minister of many departments within the Manmohan Singh authorities. Contested for the primary time from Dhaurahra seat and after that he turned the Minister of State for Steel within the Manmohan Singh authorities in 2008. In 2009, after Shahjahanpur was secured Lok Sabha seat, Jitin contested from Dhaurhara seat and gained. In UPA-II, he was made Minister of State within the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education). During this he performed a significant function in rising the variety of alternatives in UPSC for the candidates. Lost the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, however turned the Congress General Secretary, Jitin Prasada misplaced the election within the 2014 Lok Sabha elections within the Prachanda Modi wave. He was defeated by Rekha Verma of BJP. Later the Congress get together made him the final secretary of the get together after which he was made in-charge of the Congress within the 2020 West Bengal elections. However, regardless of the alliance with the Left, the Congress couldn’t carry out a lot on this election. During this time, throughout Priyanka Gandhi’s activism in UP, Jitin Prasad was seen as her charioteer on many essential events. Jitin performed an energetic function with Priyanka throughout a number of main demonstrations towards the Yogi authorities in Lucknow, from the Hathras rape case. Apart from this, he additionally emerged as the principle face of the Congress within the mobilization of Brahmin votes. .