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Who is Jitin Prasada?

Jitin Prasada

About Jitin Prasada

Who is Jitin Prasada?

Born in 1973 to a politically affluent family in UP's Shahjahanpur, BJP's Jitin Prasada is currently a Minister of State (MoS) in the NDA govt and has been assigned two ministries namely the commerce & industry, and the electronics & information technology (Meity). He is the son of Congress stalwart Jitendra Prasada, who is a former vice president of the Grand Old Party.
 
Apart from presently being an MoS, Prasada is also a LS MP from Pilibhit, UP, which he won by a margin of over 150,000 votes in the 2024 LS elections.
 
Education
Prasada attended The Doon School in Dehradun, which is
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Latest Updates on Jitin Prasada

Govt to set up data & AI labs; onboards 8 projects for safe AI: Prasada

According to the list shared by Prasada, the selected projects include Machine Unlearning from IIT Jodhpur, Synthetic Data Generation from IIT Roorkee, AI Bias Mitigation Strategy

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Updated On : 20 Dec 2024 | 7:42 PM IST

Make AI in India, work for India is vision for nation's AI revolution: Min

MoS Jitin Prasada added that the internet today is not merely a tool for connectivity, but a backbone of economies, societies, and individual aspirations

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Updated On : 09 Dec 2024 | 1:42 PM IST

India fine tuning FTAs with countries to suit domestic industry: Prasada

Prasada also urged the auto components industry to increase investment in R&D activities

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Updated On : 09 Sep 2024 | 10:48 PM IST

FDI in manufacturing rises 69% to $165 bn during 2014-24: Jitin Prasada

FDI equity inflow in the manufacturing sectors in the last ten financial years (2014-24) has increased by 69 per cent to $165.1 bn as compared to $97.7 bn in the previous ten financial years, MoS said

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Updated On : 09 Aug 2024 | 5:25 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections: Naveen Jindal, Kangana Ranaut on BJP's latest list

Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi has been replaced by Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada. However, Maneka Gandhi has been fielded again from Sultanpur

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Updated On : 25 Mar 2024 | 12:19 AM IST

Congress prez poll: When Jitendra Prasada challenged Sonia Gandhi and lost

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is contemplating the possibility of running for the post of the party president, the elections for which are due to be held on October 17

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Updated On : 30 Aug 2022 | 1:25 PM IST

How's the 'prasad', Jitin Prasada asks Sibal in payback as leader quits

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

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Updated On : 25 May 2022 | 6:42 PM IST

Jitin Prasada meets Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath, seeks his 'blessings'

Prasada recently switched from the Congress to the BJP

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Updated On : 19 Jun 2021 | 6:21 PM IST

Congress battles growing restlessness ahead of Assembly elections

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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Updated On : 14 Jun 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

Best of BS Opinion: Threat of third Covid wave, another Cong crisis & more

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Updated On : 11 Jun 2021 | 6:34 AM IST

Another Congress crisis

The grand old party must stop the accelerating rot

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Updated On : 10 Jun 2021 | 10:35 PM IST

Sibal slams Jitin for switching to BJP, says it's 'politics of prasada'

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

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Updated On : 10 Jun 2021 | 6:14 PM IST

Congress needs to undergo 'major surgery': Moily on Jitin Prasada's exit

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

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Updated On : 10 Jun 2021 | 1:44 PM IST

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

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Updated On : 10 Jun 2021 | 12:09 AM IST

Sarma, Scindia and now Prasada, Cong continues to lose stalwarts

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

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Updated On : 09 Jun 2021 | 8:40 PM IST

AICC Incharge of West Bengal, Jitin Prasada tests Covid-19 postive

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

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Updated On : 08 Apr 2021 | 3:13 AM IST

Jitin Prasada asks UP govt to declare Parshuram Jayanti state holiday

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

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Updated On : 11 Aug 2020 | 7:26 AM IST

Priyanka Gandhi Cong's face in 2022 polls? CWC and she to decide: Prasada

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

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Updated On : 18 Jul 2020 | 2:46 PM IST