In what’s being seen as an enormous setback for the Congress forward of the 2022 meeting polls in Uttar Pradesh, former Union minister and get together chief Jitin Prasada, who had been disillusioned with the grand outdated get together, converted to the BJP on Wednesday.
Several BJP leaders, Including Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, welcomed Prasada into the get together fold and termed the Congress get together a “sinking ship”.
“@JitinPrasada Welcome to Bharatiya Janata Party. I am confident that his joining the party will further strengthen the resolve of BJP for public service in Uttar Pradesh,” Shah tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.
Prasada, who was additionally half of the G-23 group in Congress that had written a letter registering its dissent with the get together management, joined the saffron get together within the presence of BJP chief JP Nadda after assembly Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal.
Welcoming Prasada, Himanta Biswa in contrast the Congress with the sinking of Titanic.
“We welcome his move of leaving Congress and joining the larger family of BJP. The Bharatiya Janata Party will definitely strengthen and benefit from his leadership in Uttar Pradesh,” tweeted UP Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath
कांग्रेस छोड़कर भाजपा के वृहद परिवार में शामिल होने पर श्री जितिन प्रसाद जी का स्वागत है।श्री जितिन प्रसाद जी के भारतीय जनता पार्टी में शामिल होने से उत्तर प्रदेश में पार्टी को अवश्य मजबूती मिलेगी।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) June 9, 2021
Disgruntled Congress chief Sanjay Jha tweeted: “Jitin Prasad is BJP’s gain, Congress’s loss. Period. I just spoke to him recently; Jitin is a gentleman, genial and generous-hearted. You can’t blame the BJP for picking up disgruntled leaders from the Congress. If I was Amit Shah I would do the same. That’s politics.”
Considered shut to Rahul Gandhi, Prasada in 2019 rubbished rumours of being upset with the Congress management and switching over to BJP. He is the second chief shut to Gandhi after Jyotiraditya Scindia to swap over to the BJP.
Prasada was focused internally after being half of the group which wrote a letter questioning the management of Gandhis within the Congress get together. The get together’s unit in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri had even handed a decision demanding his expulsion. Sources additionally reveal that Prasada was not proud of being denied the put up of UPCC chief, which was given to Ajay Kumar Lallu.
Prasada, who had represented the Dhaurahra Lok Sabha seat in Lakhimpur Kheri in 2019, has been sustaining his distance from the get together’s actions for a while now. However, he has been working beneath the umbrella of Brahman Chetna Parishad, a entrance fashioned by him to increase the problems confronted by the Brahmin neighborhood within the state. As per sources, Prasada could also be requested to contest the upcoming UP meeting elections on a BJP ticket.
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