Regional Parties Can't Do Any Good To Country: Jitin Prasada

Former Union Minister Jitin Prasada made the observation while addressing BJP workers and leaders in Lucknow at the party headquarters on his first visit to Lucknow after quitting Congress and joining the saffron party in a surprise move early this month.

The country does not happen to be of any priority for regional parties and they cannot do any good to it, former Union Minister Jitin Prasada said in Lucknow on Saturday. Mr Prasada made the observation while addressing BJP workers and leaders in Lucknow at the party headquarters on his first visit to Lucknow after quitting Congress and joining the saffron party in a surprise move early this month. "For regional parties, the country and the state are their second priority. These parties do not make leaders, but the leaders make them. They revolve around a particular person," Mr Prasada told reporters at the BJP headquarters after a rousing reception by the party men. Without taking any name, Mr Prasada hit out at the regional parties in the wake of Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of Uttar Pradesh's main regional party, of late making consistent attacks on the ruling BJP.