Jitin Prasada

BJP leader Jitin Prasada on Wednesday took a swipe at Kapil Sibal after he quit the Congress and filed his nomination for a Rajya Sabha seat from UP as an Independent backed by the Samajwadi Party

Prasada recently switched from the Congress to the BJP

Around this time the party was to hold elections to the post of party president. Amid Covid-19, the exercise was cancelled indefinitely after the CWC put its seal of approval on the cancellation

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Kapil Sibal is a prominent member of the Congress' group of 23 leaders who wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi seeking organisational overhaul last year

The remark comes a day after Jitin Prasada switched to the BJP

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

47-year-old former Union minister Jitin Prasada jumped ship on Wednesday

All India Congress Committee in charge of West Bengal, Jitin Prasada on Wednesday announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19.

Prasada's request has come a day after BSP chief Mayawati announced that if voted to power, her party will build hospitals in the name of Parshuram

Prasada said making Priyanka Gandhi the party's face in the 2022 UP Assembly elections was a 'strategic decision' to be taken by the Congress Working Committee and Priyanka herself