How Jitin Prasada may help BJP in 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls and after

While Jitin Prasada lost two Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019, failed to make a mark in UP polls in 2017, his migration to BJP is believed to bolster BJP's prospects in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

For three generations, Prasadas were Congressmen. Jitin Prasada's father Jitendra Prasada and grandfather Jyoti Prasad were Congress leaders. Now, Jitin Prasada has quit the party to join the BJP about eight months from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Jitin Prasada said it was futile to remain in the Congress if he could not "work for our own people". At 27, Jitin Prasada won his first Lok Sabha election in 2004. He won the next election too, as a Union minister, in the Congress-led UPA government. Now at 47, Jitin Prasada has said goodbye to the Congress ending a two-year-old speculation. Jitin Prasada lost two Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019, failed to make a mark in Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in 2017 and achieved nothing in West Bengal Assembly election 2021 as Congress party in-charge.