Rahul's close aide Jitin Prasada may join BJP

March 22, 2019 14:48

If true, this is both an embarrassment and a major loss to the Congress party. Jitin Prasada is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The senior Congress leader and two-time Lok Sabha MP is considered to be very close to Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

He won from Shahjahanpur and Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituencies in UP in the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections respectively.

Prasada comes from a family which has traditionally supported the Congress with his grandfather Jyoti Prasada being a member of the party. His father Jitendra Prasada was a Congress vice president and served as the political advisor to former prime ministers Rajiv Gandhi and PV Narasimha Rao.

Jitendra Prasada had also challenged Sonia Gandhi and contested against her in 2000 for the post of Congress president but lost.

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