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6 months, 2 weeks 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

8 months ago

Lok Sabha election 2024 phase 1: High-profile constituencies and key candidates

Hindustan Times

Lok Sabha Election 2024 phase 1- Key seats and candidates: The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be held in India in seven phases, from April 19 to June 1, to elect the 543 members of the Lower House of Parliament. Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress candidate from Assam's Jorhat Gaurav Gogoi and BJP candidate from Maharashtra's Nagpur Nitin Gadkari. Lok …

Tamil Nadu Chennai Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Congress Kashmir Union

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha elections 2024 | BJP's Jitin Prasada seeks to ride the 'Modi wave' to win in Pilibhit

The Hindu

Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and with a saffron scarf around his neck, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Pilibhit, Jitin Prasada reads out the names of a few local party workers from a paper at a public meeting in Pilibhit. Mr. Prasada and Anoop Pradhan Valmiki are the only ministers from the Uttar Pradesh cabinet …

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2 years, 10 months ago

UP Elections: A peek into why next-gen leaders are leaving Congress ahead of crucial polls

India TV News

Highlights Next-gen leaders are leaving Congress Party struggles to regain lost ground Out of 166 candidates declared so far by the Cong in UP, 119 are making their electoral debut Synonymous with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh for decades, several families are now losing their new generation to rival organisations, making it even more difficult for the party to regain …

Party Leaders Bjp Singh Tripathi Punia Rampur

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 …

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3 years, 6 months ago

'Over my dead body': Kapil Sibal slams Jitin Prasada, says he can never think of joining BJP

Firstpost

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday said Jitin Prasada’s crossing over to the BJP represented politics of “prasada” or personal gains and asserted that for him a switch to the saffron party could only happen over his dead body. Sibal, along with Jitin Prasada, was among the Congress’ group of 23 leaders who wrote to party chief …

Politics Congress Leaders Ideology Bjp Think Personal Gain

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

Jitin Prasada quits Congress, joins BJP

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: Jitin Prasada, a former Union minister and prominent member of the Congress’ young brigade that is headed by Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday joined the BJP ahead of the crucial Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Mr Prasada, one of the signatories to the letter written by the "G-23" to the Congress’ interim president Sonia Gandhi, demanding major course correction …

Congress Party Union Gandhi Lok Sabha Bjp Minister

3 years, 6 months ago

Jitin Prasada May Have Quit Congress Now, But His Trust Deficit With the Gandhis Existed Since 2019

News 18

In March 2019, a month before the Lok Sabha polls, Congress General Secretary in-charge for Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi had come up with an ambitious idea of bringing in a popular Brahmin face as a party candidate, against BJP stalwart Rajnath Singh in Lucknow. A man of sophistication, urban charm, a popular Brahmin face and two-term Union Minister, Jitin’s candidature …

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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

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 …

Congress West Bengal West Star Star Campaigners List Singh

4 years, 3 months ago

'Sack him': Jitin Prasada faces heat in UP Congress for writing letter to Sonia Gandhi

India Today

Three days after Congress president Sonia Gandhi said she does not have any ill feelings against the 23 Congress leaders who wrote her a letter demanding a leadership overhaul of the party at all levels, Congress leader Jitin Prasada faces heat in his home turf of Lakhimpur Khiri in Uttar Pradesh. The local district unit of the Congress party has …

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

Lok Sabha election 2024 phase 1: High-profile constituencies and key candidates

Lok Sabha elections 2024 | BJP's Jitin Prasada seeks to ride the 'Modi wave' to win in Pilibhit

UP Elections: A peek into why next-gen leaders are leaving Congress ahead of crucial polls

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

'Over my dead body': Kapil Sibal slams Jitin Prasada, says he can never think of joining BJP

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

Jitin Prasada quits Congress, joins BJP

Jitin Prasada May Have Quit Congress Now, But His Trust Deficit With the Gandhis Existed Since 2019

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

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

'Sack him': Jitin Prasada faces heat in UP Congress for writing letter to Sonia Gandhi