Congress leader Jitin Prasada joins BJP ahead of Uttar Pradesh elections

The BJP sees value in Prasada as a means to get Brahmins to return to the party

A disillusioned Jitin Prasada, former Union minister of state and scion of a once-powerful political Congress family in Uttar Pradesh, has left the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). For some months now, Prasada had confided to friends that he felt he was prevented in his personal and political growth by the Congress which sent him to oversee the organisational management of the West Bengal unit ahead of the Assembly elections, just when he was in the middle of his Brahmin Chetna Yatras in Uttar Pradesh.
 
He gave vent to his frustration when at his maiden press