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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

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Class of ’92 in fray: 4 Doon batchmates set for Lok Sabha poll battles

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: The storied Doon School in Dehradun is watching the ongoing elections with a considerable interest, with four of its alumni from the class of 1992 contesting this year. The Bharatiya Janata Party ’s Jitin Prasada and Raghav Lakhanpal are contesting from Uttar Pradesh, Nakul Nath is the Congress’s candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara and their batchmate Kalikesh Singh …

School Congress Lok Sabha Bjp Class Singh Contesting

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Varun Gandhi feels 'cheated' due to BJP snub, may not contest Lok Sabha polls

India Today

Varun Gandhi, the sitting BJP MP from Pilibhit, feels "cheated" after the party replaced him with former Congress leader Jitin Prasada to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from the constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In its fifth list of candidates, the BJP dropped Varun Gandhi from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat but retained his mother, Maneka Gandhi, from Sultanpur in …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Contest Gandhi Lok Sabha Bjp Varun

9 months ago

Ex-MLA's followers ransack TD office in Srikakulam

Deccan Chronicle

Visakhapatnam: Former MLA and senior TD leader Gunda Lakshmi Devi and her followers ransacked the party office in Srikakulam on Friday after the party president N. Chandrababu Naidu announced the name of Gondu Shankar as the candidate for the Srikakulam assembly constituency. Soon after the announcement of Sankar’s name for the Srikakulam constituency, a furious Lakshmi and her followers attacked …

Party Mla Devi Srikakulam Lakshmi Devi

11 months, 1 week ago

Resignations of the ’powerless’ and a Congress that keeps disappointing

Live Mint

A few months before the countdown begins for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and Milind Deora's exit has reignited past grievances, underlining how the Congress keeps disappointing its young leaders. MILIND DEORA Milind Deora left the Congress on January 14 and joined Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena for "development". JITIN PRASADA Jitin Prasada, ex-UPA minister and Congress' prominent …

Mumbai Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Shiv Sena Lok Sabha Bjp

1 year, 8 months ago

NETA NATTER | KTR JOSTLES BJP CORPORATORS

Deccan Chronicle

Rama Rao can also be a stickler for rules, definitely when it comes to protocol by inviting corporators of Opposition parties to programmes in Hyderabad. At both venues, Rama Rao said everyone, including the BJP corporators, knew that the BRS was set to return to power with K. Chandrashekar Rao as a third term Chief Minister and went on to …

Women Party Leaders Telangana Chief Secretary Bjp Minister

1 year, 10 months ago

MLC polls no referendum on 3 capitals: Botsa Satyanarayana

Deccan Chronicle

VISAKHAPATNAM: Education Minister Botsa Satanarayana said on Sunday that the MLC polls need not be treated as a referendum on the three-capitals plan though the chances of the ruling party winning the elections "are of 200 per cent." YSRC regional coordinator Subba Reddy said the party's high command has decided on the candidature of Seethamraju Sudhakar for the Srikakulam, Vizianagaram …

Election Party Minister Visakhapatnam Ysrc Botsa

2 years, 1 month ago

Gadapa Gadapaku for peopleâ€™s feedback: Dharmana

Deccan Chronicle

VISHAKHAPATNAM: Revenue minister Dharmana Prasada Rao declared that YSRC government is seeking public opinion on its three-year rule through the Gadapa Gadapaku Mana Prabhutvam programme that it is organising throughout the state. While participating in his mass contact programme at Badurgapeta in Srikakulam town on Friday, he told reporters that Gadapa Gadapaku will help YSRC leaders understand problems being faced …

Ysrc Ysrc Government Prasada Rao Gadapa Gadapa Gadapaku

2 years, 1 month ago

Gadapa Gadapaku not election campaign, says Dharmana

Deccan Chronicle

VISAKHAPATNAM: Minister for Revenue Dharmana Prasada Rao said there was resentment among the people against the government, while talking to the reporters during his Gadapa Gadapaku programme which was organized in PN Colony in Srikakulam town on Tuesday. He also added that the ongoing Gadapa Gadapaku government programme is providing their party an insight into the way welfare schemes can …

Welfare Schemes Programme Prasada Rao Gadapa Gadapa Gadapaku

2 years, 2 months ago

Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress to get first non-Gandhi president in 24 years today

India TV News

Highlights All sealed ballot boxes from 68 polling booths set up across country have been brought to Delhi The Congress has claimed that its internal democracy has no parallel in any other party It's 6 time in Cong's nearly 137-year-old history that electoral contest is deciding new President Congress President Election: The Congress will get its first non-Gandhi president in …

Election Contest Party Senior Leaders Ballot Polls Kharge

2 years, 3 months ago

Shashi Tharoor plans to run for Congress president?

The Hindu

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is exploring the possibility of running for the party President’s post, The Hindu has learnt, though the only indication from him is an article he wrote for a Malayalam daily on Monday, in which he expressed hope that several candidates come forward for the contest. Mr. Tharoor, citing the example of the ongoing leadership race in …

Congress Party Leaders Hindu Tharoor Congress President Wrote

2 years, 3 months ago

Would Congress democratise itself? Unlikely, if one goes by past precedence

India Today

Naysayers have been proven wrong. Arjun Singh, ND Tiwari, K Natwar Singh, Sheila Dixit and others who, in 1995, left the grand old party to form a breakaway Tiwari Congress, returned to the parent organisation in 1997 when the Congress was out of power and Sitaram Kesri was AICC president. WHEN JITTY BHAI TOOK ON SONIA The Congress had witnessed …

Congress Party Gandhi Pawar Rahul President Polls

2 years, 3 months ago

After Anand Sharma, Jaiveer Shergill, Ghulam Nabi Azad's Resignation Jolts Cong

News 18

After dismal performances in Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections in recent years, Congress is witnessing a resignation spree with its young and popular leaders switching sides for better opportunities and positions. Veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad became the latest to quit the grand old party, just two days after 39-year-old Jaiveer Shergill’s resignation. He joined the Congress in 2019 …

Congress Gujarat Party Lok Sabha Bjp Sabha Cong

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, 5 months ago

Amid row with UP ministry, Jitin Prasada visits capital

Hindustan Times

Uttar Pradesh public works department minister Jitin Prasada left for Delhi on Wednesday for a meeting with Bharatiya Janata Party brass, amid the controversy in his ministry over transfers and the suspension of five department employees. Quelling reports that he was taking up the matter with the BJP’s central leadership, Prasada said there was no question of being upset with …

Bjp Department Prasada Minister Pwd Ministry Jitin Engineers Association Visits Capital

2 years, 7 months ago

Sunil Jakhar Latest to Abandon Sinking Cong Ship. From Jitin Prasada to RPN Singh, A Look at Recent Exits

News 18

After months of speculation, which involved a blow hot, blow cold relationship, veteran Congress leader Sunil Jakhar quit the party on Saturday, even as the Grand Old Party has gone into a huddle in Udaipur for a ‘Chintan ‘ Shivir’ to chalk out a roadmap for its rejuvenation. News18 takes a look at the recent Congress exits: Ripun Bora: Former …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Union Bjp Minister Punjab

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

2 years, 10 months ago

'New Chapter in Political Journey': Congress Heavyweight RPN Singh Quits Party, Joins BJP

News 18

In yet another blow for the Congress, which is struggling to keep its house in order ahead of assembly elections, Congress heavyweight and former minister RPN Singh quit the party and joined the BJP ahead of the upcoming assembly elections. Announcing the decision on Twitter, Singh shared his resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and said he was …

Congress Political Journey Bjp Singh Twitter Prasada Rpn Singh

3 years, 2 months ago

Jitin Prasada, Sushmita Dev to Kanhaiya & Mevani: Can Rahul Gandhi’s GenNext 2.0 Win Votes?

News 18

The induction of Jignesh Mevani and Kanhaiya Kumar into the Congress can best be described as a marriage of convenience. For Mevani, Independent MLA from Gujarat, and Kumar, former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union and till recently with the Communist Party of India, joining the Congress means a move to a larger stage even though it is …

Bihar Dalits Dalit Congress Gujarat Party Rahul

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

Regional Parties Can't Do Any Good to the Country, Says BJP Leader Jitin Prasada

News 18

The country does not happen to be of any priority for regional parties and they cannot do any good to it, former Union Minister Jitin Prasada said here on Saturday. Without taking any name, Prasada hit out at the regional parties in the wake of Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of Uttar Pradesh’s main regional party, of late making consistent attacks …

Congress Party Leaders Country State Bjp Regional Parties

3 years, 6 months ago

Jitin Prasada interview | ‘BJP stands for India First’

The Hindu

After switching from the Congress to the BJP, Jitin Prasada speaks to The Hindu about the 180 degree change in his ideology, Brahmin politics and the internal dissensions in Congress. And on the other hand, I see, the BJP, which is a national party, not only its organisational setup, the way of its functioning, the institutionalised culture and process, it …

India Congress Bjp Narendra Modi

3 years, 6 months ago

There Is No Ideology: Prasada Brings up Sena Alliance, Slams Sibal

The Quint

Prasada, who was a close aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi added further, “He is a very senior leader. What was the ideology when Congress aligned with the Left in Bengal, and at the same time they were fighting the Left in Kerala,” NDTV quoted him. “Commenting on a small individual like me won't change the fortune of the Congress," …

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

Class of ’92 in fray: 4 Doon batchmates set for Lok Sabha poll battles

Varun Gandhi feels 'cheated' due to BJP snub, may not contest Lok Sabha polls

Ex-MLA's followers ransack TD office in Srikakulam

Resignations of the ’powerless’ and a Congress that keeps disappointing

NETA NATTER | KTR JOSTLES BJP CORPORATORS

MLC polls no referendum on 3 capitals: Botsa Satyanarayana

Gadapa Gadapaku for peopleâ€™s feedback: Dharmana

Gadapa Gadapaku not election campaign, says Dharmana

Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress to get first non-Gandhi president in 24 years today

Shashi Tharoor plans to run for Congress president?

Would Congress democratise itself? Unlikely, if one goes by past precedence

After Anand Sharma, Jaiveer Shergill, Ghulam Nabi Azad's Resignation Jolts Cong

BJP had no time for disgruntled UP minister Jitin Prasada

Amid row with UP ministry, Jitin Prasada visits capital

Sunil Jakhar Latest to Abandon Sinking Cong Ship. From Jitin Prasada to RPN Singh, A Look at Recent Exits

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

'New Chapter in Political Journey': Congress Heavyweight RPN Singh Quits Party, Joins BJP

Jitin Prasada, Sushmita Dev to Kanhaiya & Mevani: Can Rahul Gandhi’s GenNext 2.0 Win Votes?

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

Regional Parties Can't Do Any Good to the Country, Says BJP Leader Jitin Prasada

Jitin Prasada interview | ‘BJP stands for India First’

There Is No Ideology: Prasada Brings up Sena Alliance, Slams Sibal