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2 years, 2 months ago

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

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

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, 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

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 …

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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, 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, 6 months ago

Anita Katyal | UP rumblings: Yogi's men bank on Modi to allay 2022 ticket fears

Deccan Chronicle

When the Bharatiya Janata Party dispatched senior leaders B.L. But Mr Santosh and Mr Singh met only a section of ministers and state party leaders after which chief minister Yogi Adityanath was given a clean chit for successfully tackling the second wave of Covid infections. “Friendly” media-persons were informally told that the Prime Minister had actually given in-principle approval for …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Captain Men Gandhi Leaders Bjp

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," …

Congress Prasada Brings

3 years, 6 months ago

Prasada switch gives Pilot and his rebels hope in Rajasthan

India Today

Sachin Pilot would perhaps be sending a ‘thank you’ note to friend Jitin Prasada. The Punjab Precedent In Punjab, the Congress high command had recently deputed a three-member panel consisting of Mallikarjun Kharge, Harish Rawat and JP Aggarwal to talk to Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and dissident leaders such as Navjot Singh Sidhu, Pratap Singh Bajwa and a number …

Rajasthan Congress Party Punjab Pilot Venugopal Gehlot

3 years, 6 months ago

Ex-Congress MP Jitin Prasada is marginal player, but his switch to BJP raises questions for both parties

Firstpost

The BJP has always made a big production of its shtick about the Congress’ dynastic politics, but now it is welcoming a motley crew of dynasts into its ranks with no apparent sense of irony There’s been yet another ‘defection’ from the Indian National Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party. On 9 June, Jitin Prasada, a one-time member of Rahul …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Bjp Pradesh Uttar Scindia

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

Will Jitin get 'prasada' from BJP? Kapil Sibal questions Congress leader's switch

India TV News

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has said that there must be some reason behind Jitin Prasada's decision to quit the party and join the ranks with the Bharatiya Janata Party. "I am not against what Jitin Prasada did as there must be some reason which hasn't been disclosed, but joining BJP is something I cannot understand," Sibal, one of the …

Congress Party Sibal Join Kapil Sibal Prasada Jitin Prasada

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

After Jitin Prasada's exit, can Congress rein in next round of defections?

India Today

The buzz in the Congress, social media, mainstream media and in the political circles over the next round of defection/identity of defectors has a simple answer. The usual suspect list of Sachin Pilot, Navjyot Singh Sidhu, RPN Singh and many more from G-23 — the Congress leaders who demanded organisational changes in the party — is misleading. There has been …

Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Jharkhand Gandhi Bjp

3 years, 6 months ago

Pilot trouble for Congress in Rajasthan, party gets no time to heal after Jitin Prasada wound

India Today

With Jitin Prasada, once considered close to Rahul Gandhi and a bright future prospect, joining BJP, the Congress party's bad political days in office seem to be far from over. In Rajasthan, the agreement mediated by Congress top leaders between two factions led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot has not been rolled out even after 10 months. …

Rajasthan Party Gandhi Rahul Bjp Minister Chief

3 years, 6 months ago

'Team Rahul' disintegrates; after Scindia, Prasada will Sachin Pilot be the next?

India TV News

"No point being in a party if you cannot help the people," Jitin Prasada said after he switched sides from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Prasada's crisp statement made it amply clear what all was wrong with the Congress, an issue which was highlighted by 'G23' in the letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi last year. Jitin …

Congress Party Bjp Leader Pilot Scindia Jitin Prasada

3 years, 6 months ago

Palace Intrigue Victims? Before Jitin Prasada, His Father Too Was Disillusioned with Cong & Gandhis

News 18

On March 23, 2019, the Congress had survived a scare of losing Jitin Prasada to the BJP. Even as Jitin Prasada suffered another humiliating defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, forfeiting deposit from Dhaurahra parliamentary seat, Prasada, a second-generation dynast, remained disillusioned, edgy and rebellious within the Congress till Wednesday afternoon. Jitendra Prasada had contested against Sonia Gandhi for …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Lok Sabha Leaders Bjp Singh

3 years, 6 months ago

Ahead of UP Polls, Rahul Gandhi’s Ex-Aide Jitin Prasada Joins BJP

The Quint

He was one of the 23 senior Congress leaders who had written to party chief Sonia Gandhi in 2020, calling for sweeping reforms, collective decision-making, and "full-time, visible leadership". He was tasked with Bengal’s election campaign but that didn’t go down well with the Congress after Prasada publicly criticised the party’s decision to ally with the Indian Secular Front, led …

Congress Party Gandhi Prasada

3 years, 6 months ago

Salman Khurshid: Feel very low that Jitin Prasada quit Congress | Interview

India Today

After Jyotiraditya Scindia, another GenNext leader and Rahul Gandhi aide, Jitin Prasada, stunned the Congress by switching over to the BJP, ahead of the Uttar Pradesh election. In an interview with India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid said he feels very low that his colleague Jitin Prasada quit the party, but added that it …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Why Jitin Prasada switched from Congress to BJP

India Today

Jitin Prasada has made a switch anticipated for quite some time. Long considered as one of the closest aides of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Jitin Prasada had been sulking within the party for being “ignored”. Jitin Prasada is said to have developed differences with the Gandhis around the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election when Rahul Gandhi joined hands with Samajwadi …

Uttar Pradesh Party Gandhi Lok Sabha Rahul Bjp Lok

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

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

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

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?

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

Anita Katyal | UP rumblings: Yogi's men bank on Modi to allay 2022 ticket fears

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

Prasada switch gives Pilot and his rebels hope in Rajasthan

Ex-Congress MP Jitin Prasada is marginal player, but his switch to BJP raises questions for both parties

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

Will Jitin get 'prasada' from BJP? Kapil Sibal questions Congress leader's switch

Jitin Prasada quits Congress, joins BJP

After Jitin Prasada's exit, can Congress rein in next round of defections?

Pilot trouble for Congress in Rajasthan, party gets no time to heal after Jitin Prasada wound

'Team Rahul' disintegrates; after Scindia, Prasada will Sachin Pilot be the next?

Palace Intrigue Victims? Before Jitin Prasada, His Father Too Was Disillusioned with Cong & Gandhis

Ahead of UP Polls, Rahul Gandhi’s Ex-Aide Jitin Prasada Joins BJP

Salman Khurshid: Feel very low that Jitin Prasada quit Congress | Interview

Why Jitin Prasada switched from Congress to BJP

Mission Uttar Pradesh: Why BJP wants Jitin Prasada

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