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6 months, 1 week ago

Jitin Prasada resigns from Yogi Cabinet, takes charge as MoS in Modi Govt 3.0

Jitin Prasada on Tuesday resigned as Public Works Department Minister in the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government after assuming charge as Minister of State for Information and Technology in Modi 3.0 government. Prasada was once considered as among Rahul Gandhi's 'young Turks' and was a minister in successive Manmohan Singh governments but defected from the Congress to the …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Lok Sabha Bjp Minister Modi Manmohan Singh

2 years, 5 months ago

BJP had no time for disgruntled UP minister Jitin Prasada

India Today

Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada, who was in Delhi to meet the BJP high command, was forced to return to Lucknow without meeting party leadership on Wednesday. Earlier this month, the Yogi Adityanath government cracked down on the Public Works Department, after a three-member inquiry committee, comprising chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra, additional chief secretary home Awanish Awasthi and additional …

Delhi Bjp Minister Meet Yogi Adityanath Prasada Jitin Prasada

2 years, 10 months ago

All 4 Legs of Cot Gone: Why RPN Singh's Exit May Give Congress in UP Sleepless Nights

News 18

In 2016, when Rahul Gandhi started his Khat Yatra from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh, it was RPN Singh who was at the forefront of it, being the biggest leader Congress had from Kushinagar region in eastern UP. It is apparent that all the four leaders in question, RPN Singh, Jitin Prasada, Lalitesh Tripathi and Imran Masood felt they simply cannot …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Singh Kushinagar Imran Masood Jitin Prasada

3 years, 2 months ago

Yogi govt allocates portfolios to new ministers, Jitin Prasada to head technical education department

India TV News

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has allocated portfolios to all the seven new ministers who were sworn in on Sunday following the UP cabinet expansion. Newly-inducted Cabinet Minister Jitin Prasada has been given charge of the Technical Education Department, while Minister of State Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar will be taking over the Revenue Department. Among other key appointments, MoS Paltu …

Uttar Pradesh Department Minister Cabinet Yogi Adityanath Yogi Jitin Prasada

3 years, 2 months ago

Jitin Prasada, UP Brahmin & Ex-Congressman, Now a Cabinet Minister in Yogi Govt: All You Need to Know

News 18

Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Council of Ministers headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was expanded on Sunday evening. A popular Brahmin face Jitin Prasada, who switched over to the BJP from the Congress, was also sworn in as a minister in the UP government. Prasada was also in the news during the 2019 Lok Sabha …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Gandhi Lok Sabha Bjp Minister Prasada

3 years, 2 months ago

UP Cabinet Expansion: Jitin Prasada Takes Oath as Minister, Chhatrapal Gangwar, Paltu Ram, 4 Others as MoS

News 18

Former Congress leader Jitin Prasada, BJP leaders Chhatrapal Singh, Paltu Ram, and four others took oath on Sunday as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expanded his cabinet ahead of 2022 state assembly elections. LIVE UPDATES: Jitin Prasada, Chhatrapal Gangwar, Paltu Ram Set to Take Oath Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party is attempting to …

Ministers State Minister Ram Cabinet Yogi Adityanath Yogi

3 years, 2 months ago

Uttar Pradesh cabinet expansion: Jitin Prasada, 6 other ministers inducted in Yogi Adityanath govt

India TV News

The Uttar Pradesh government's cabinet expansion was held today as seven new ministers take the oath of office, and get inducted into Yogi Adityanath's cabinet. Uttar Pradesh Cabinter Expansion | Highlights A total of 7 new ministers took the oath of office as part of Yogi Adityanath's cabinet expansion. Jitin Prasada, who left the Congress party and joined BJP in …

Assembly Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Expansion Ministers Bjp Cabinet

3 years, 5 months ago

UP Cabinet expansion: BJP looks to fix caste equations ahead of polls, Jitin Prasada may get a berth

India TV News

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath could soon undertake an exercise to expand his Cabinet. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to focus on caste equations in the upcoming expansion ahead of 2022 assembly polls. Jitin, a prominent Brahmin face from western UP, had who quit the Congress recently to join the and the BJP There have been talks …

Uttar Pradesh Bjp Cabinet Minister Yogi Jitin Prasada Caste Equations Polls Jitin

3 years, 6 months ago

With Jitin Prasada Joining BJP & Rakesh Tikait Meeting Mamata, A Big Picture View is Emerging in UP

News 18

Uttar Pradesh is in a political churn. The Congress’s depletion was evident in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when Rahul Gandhi, the putative president, lost Amethi, the Gandhis’ pocket borough, to the BJP and migrated southward to Kerala. In the 2017 Assembly elections, the Congress tied up with the SP in the belief that the projection of two “youths”—Akhilesh Yadav …

Kolkata Political Congress Mamata Rahul Bjp Mayawati

3 years, 6 months ago

'Those who have small mindset': Jitin Prasada on MP Congress' garbage remark

India TV News

Newly inducted BJP leader Jitin Prasada on Thursday said that his decision to switch sides was well-thought as he was aware of the situation of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. Prasada's reply came following Mallikarjun Kharge's statement that he was never ignored in the party. When asked about Madhya Pradesh Congress' now-deleted tweet calling him garbage, Prasada said, "I won't …

Bjp Pradesh Congress Prasada Jitin Prasada Jitin

3 years, 6 months ago

How Jitin Prasada may help BJP in 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls and gain in return

India Today

For three generations, Prasadas were Congressmen. Now, Jitin Prasada has quit the party to join the BJP about eight months from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Jitin Prasada lost two Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019, failed to make a mark in Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in 2017 and achieved nothing in West Bengal Assembly election 2021 as Congress …

Uttar Pradesh Election Samajwadi Party Party Lok Sabha Bjp Mayawati

3 years, 6 months ago

‘Everyone Leaving One by One’: As Jitin Prasada Joins BJP, Congress Leaders Call for Introspection

News 18

Lucknow: Reacting to former Union minister and party leader Jitin Prasada’s move of switching over to the BJP, Aditi Singh, Congress MLA from Raebareli, on Wednesday traded guns at the party leadership and said that it’s about time the party did some introspection. Prasada, who was also part of the G-23 group in Congress that had written a letter registering …

Congress Party Leaders Bjp Singh Leader Raebareli

3 years, 6 months ago

Who is Jitin Prasada?

India TV News

In a major setback for the Congress party months ahead of Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, senior party leader Jitin Prasada on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Prasada also served as a minister in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as MoS for Steel. He was also among the 23 Congress leaders who called for an organisational …

Congress Party Bjp Prasada Jitin Prasada

3 years, 6 months ago

Jitin Prasada Joins BJP Ahead of UP Polls, Calls it New Chapter of Political Career

News 18

In a setback for the Congress ahead of the 2022 state assembly polls, former Union minister and party leader Jitin Prasada, who had been disillusioned with the grand old party, switched over to the BJP on Wednesday. Prasada, who was also part of the G-23 group in Congress that had written a letter registering its dissent with the party leadership, …

Congress Party Union Lok Sabha Bjp Minister Sabha Elections

3 years, 6 months ago

'PM Modi standing for interests of nation': Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada joins BJP ahead of UP polls

India TV News

Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi. Prasada's induction into the BJP is seen as a massive gain for the party ahead of the 2022 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. "If there is any political party or a leader standing for the interests of the nation today, given the situation that our country …

Congress Party Bjp Leader Prasada Jitin Prasada

3 years, 6 months ago

Mission Uttar Pradesh: Why BJP wants Jitin Prasada

India Today

On the morning of June 9, when Congress leader Jitin Prasada visited Union home minister Amit Shah at his residence with Union minister Piyush Goyal, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind about the purpose of his visit. And as Uttar Pradesh goes to election in less than a year, being a Brahmin face, Prasada will come in useful for …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Union Priyanka State Bjp

3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Assembly polls fourth phase updates | 76.16% turnout till 5 pm; ECI orders re-poll at 1 polling station

The Hindu

Five people lost their lives in two separate incidents of firing during elections at Sitalkuchi Assembly in north Bengal on Saturday sending shockwaves across the State where voting for four more phases is yet to be held. Here are the live updates: 7.13 p.m. EC orders re-poll at 1 polling station The Election Commission on Saturday ordered re-polling at one …

Kolkata Assembly Congress West Bengal Mamata West West Bengal Assembly

3 years, 9 months ago

Sonia, Manmohan among 30 star campaigners for Congress in Bengal, G-23 left out

India Today

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi are among 30 star campaigners who will address the party's public meetings in poll-bound West Bengal. The list of the party's star campaigners for West Bengal comprises former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, and former Punjab minister …

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Jitin Prasada resigns from Yogi Cabinet, takes charge as MoS in Modi Govt 3.0

BJP had no time for disgruntled UP minister Jitin Prasada

All 4 Legs of Cot Gone: Why RPN Singh's Exit May Give Congress in UP Sleepless Nights

Yogi govt allocates portfolios to new ministers, Jitin Prasada to head technical education department

Jitin Prasada, UP Brahmin & Ex-Congressman, Now a Cabinet Minister in Yogi Govt: All You Need to Know

UP Cabinet Expansion: Jitin Prasada Takes Oath as Minister, Chhatrapal Gangwar, Paltu Ram, 4 Others as MoS

Uttar Pradesh cabinet expansion: Jitin Prasada, 6 other ministers inducted in Yogi Adityanath govt

UP Cabinet expansion: BJP looks to fix caste equations ahead of polls, Jitin Prasada may get a berth

With Jitin Prasada Joining BJP & Rakesh Tikait Meeting Mamata, A Big Picture View is Emerging in UP

'Those who have small mindset': Jitin Prasada on MP Congress' garbage remark

How Jitin Prasada may help BJP in 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls and gain in return

‘Everyone Leaving One by One’: As Jitin Prasada Joins BJP, Congress Leaders Call for Introspection

Who is Jitin Prasada?

Jitin Prasada Joins BJP Ahead of UP Polls, Calls it New Chapter of Political Career

'PM Modi standing for interests of nation': Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada joins BJP ahead of UP polls

Mission Uttar Pradesh: Why BJP wants Jitin Prasada

West Bengal Assembly polls fourth phase updates | 76.16% turnout till 5 pm; ECI orders re-poll at 1 polling station

Sonia, Manmohan among 30 star campaigners for Congress in Bengal, G-23 left out