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Jitin Prasada, who was among the many G-23 leaders that demanded free and honest organisational election in the Congress final yr, might be a part of BJP with some extra leaders from UP.
Senior Congress chief Jitin Prasada was noticed on the Union minister Piyush Goyal’s residence on Wednesday, sparking hypothesis of his becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party months forward of Uttar Pradesh meeting elections.
Sources in the BJP advised News18 that he could also be requested to contest meeting polls in 2022 after which could also be play a job in Lok Sabha elections in 2024. During the final state elections Congress’s UP incharge Priyanka Gandhi was mulling to area the favored Brahmin face towards BJP stalwart Rajnath Singh in Lucknow.
Prasada was, nonetheless, reluctant to choose up the gauntlet. Sources had stated that the chief felt extra snug contesting from his conventional seat Dhaurara and didn’t see any sound political rationale in shifting to Lucknow.
The chief, who was among the many G-23 leaders that demanded free and honest organisational election in the Congress final yr, might be a part of BJP with some extra leaders from UP.
As Prasada witnessed voices of protest and criticism inside the occasion and proper underneath his nostril in the world of his parliamentary constituency, the query was why he selected to signal the Group-23 letter.
While the management adjustments in the UP Congress, underneath new president Ajay Kumar Lallu, and robust intervention on the technique stage by Team Priyanka led by former JNU pupil union president Sandeep Singh has disturbed equations of many aged palms inside the state Congress, none besides Jitin Prasada and Raj Babbar selected to signal on the letter addressed to the Congress president in search of organisational adjustments.
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