Jitin Prasada (born 29 November 1973) is an Indian politician from

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

. He was appointed Cabinet Minister by the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 26 September 2021. Earlier, he has been the former Minister of State for Human Resource Department,

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. He was representing

Dhaurahra (Lok Sabha constituency) Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. This constituency, spread over Lakhimpur Kheri and Sitapur districts came into existence in 2008 as a part of th ...

of district Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh in

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, where he won by votes. On 9 June, 2021 Jitin Prasad quit the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

and joined the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

in the presence of senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal. Prasada attended

The Doon School, Dehradun The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, who prevised a school mod ...

at roughly the same time as politicians Jyotiraditya Scindia,

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and

Dushyant Singh Dushyant Singh (born 11 September 1973) is an Indian politician and businessman, presently serving as the Member of Parliament for Jhalawar-Baran (Lok Sabha constituency), Jhalawar-Baran in the Lok Sabha. He has been elected to four terms, each ...

and

Sherwood College Sherwood College is a co-educational residential school in Nainital, Uttrakhand , India. It was established in 1869 and is affiliated to CISCE and IGCSE. History Sherwood was founded on 5 June 1869. It was the brain-child of Dr. Condon, H.S. ...

Early life

Prasada was born in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh to politician

Jitendra Prasada Jitendra Prasada (12 November 1938 – 16 January 2001) was an Indian politician and a former vice-president of the Indian National Congress. He was also the political advisor to two prime ministers of India, Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and P. V. Nara ...

and his wife Kanta Prasada. He attended the all-boys' boarding school, The Doon School in

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative As ...

(where he was a contemporary of politicians Jyotiraditya Scindia and

). He did a degree in commerce from the Shri Ram College of Commerce,

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and then completed his MBA from

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. His grandfather Jyoti Prasad was a Congress party member and served legislative and local body positions. His grandmother Pamela Prasada belonged to the Sikh family of Kapurthala. His great grandfather Jwala Prasada was a Colonial Civil Service officer and great grandmother

Purnima Devi Purnima Devi whose maiden name was Sudakshina Devi (1884–1972), was the youngest child of noted Brahmo Hemendranath Tagore, and niece of Rabindranath Tagore, thus part of the main Tagore family. She was married to Sir Jwala Prasada, Zamindar ...

, youngest daughter of Hemendranath Tagore brother of Nobel Laureate

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

Political career

In 2001, Jitin Prasad started his career with

Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While p ...

as a general secretary. In 2004, he won his first election and was elected Member of the Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha from his hometown constituency of Shahjahanpur, U.P. In his first tenure as Member of the Parliament Jitin Prasad was inducted as Minister of State for Steel and was one of the youngest ministers in the Cabinet (April 2008). In 2009, he fought and won the election from Dhaurara, as his home bastion Shahjahanpur came under the

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process. His promise of getting the

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railway track of the district Lakhimpur Kheri converted to

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gathered major support for his candidature during 2009 Parliamentary elections. He has laid down foundation stone of a Steel factory in his constituency

during his tenure as Union minister of state for Steel in 2008. For the 14th

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

, Jitin held the positions of Committee on Petitions (Member); Committee on Information Technology and Communications (Member); Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Steel. He was appointed In-Charge for

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for Congress, ahead of

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. Prasad joined the

on June 9, 2021.

References

External links

Official biography of Shri Jitin Prasad

biography from Govt. of India records

Jitin Prasad: Petroleum & Natural Gas

Gods the most misused name
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