Father of Jitin Prasada had died after dropping ‘fastened ballot’ to Sonia Gandhi

Earlier right now, Congress chief Jitin Prasada left his social gathering and joined the BJP on the social gathering headquarters in New Delhi. Prasada, who’s the previous union minister and Congress chief from Uttar Pradesh, paid a go to to Union Minister Piyush Goyal, and from there each of them went to satisfy residence minister Amit Shah earlier than going to the BJP headquarters. The improvement comes forward of the Uttar Pradesh State Legislative elections which might be scheduled to be held subsequent 12 months.
Before becoming a member of the BJP, Jitin Prasada has been a lifelong Congress member. He is the son of late Congress chief Jitendra Prasada, who served because the vice-president of the Indian National Congress and was additionally the political advisor to 2 prime ministers of India, Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and PV Narasimha Rao in 1994.
A longstanding Congress supporter, Jitendra Prasada breathed his final on 16 January 2001 after he suffered from a cerebral haemorrhage. However, there may be an fascinating backstory behind the unlucky demise of Jitendra Prasad.
Jitendra Prasad fought and misplaced the election for the submit of social gathering presidentship in opposition to Sonia Gandhi
Back in 1999, insurrection in opposition to Sonia Gandhi was brewing as senior social gathering members, together with Sharad Pawar, PA Sangma and Tariq Anwar overtly spoke in opposition to her and asserted that the widow of Rajiv Gandhi didn’t have what it takes to turn out to be the Prime Minister of the nation, totally on account of inexperience and her Italian nationality.
This faction, which was overtly difficult Sonia Gandhi’s management over the Congress social gathering, was promptly proven the door. In their absence, the mantle of opposing Sonia Gandhi’s hegemony over the Congress social gathering was challenged by two people, Rajesh Pilot and Jitendra Prasada, each of whom have been struggling to make their mark within the social gathering that promoted nepotism and stifled benefit.
Soon after that they had begun the marketing campaign to yank the management of the social gathering from Sonia’s grip, Pilot died in a automotive accident in the summertime of 2000. This left Prasada alone, who ploughed alongside in his battle in opposition to Sonia Gandhi.
Prasada had confided in a journalist that Sonia Gandhi didn’t play “straight” within the elections
In November 2000, Prasada contested the social gathering election for the presidentship in opposition to Sonia however was terribly defeated and outnumbered by the clique of Sonia supporters. Of the 7,542 votes that have been polled, he may handle to garner a paltry 94.
Later, in an interplay with an India Today journalist in December 2000, Prasada break up beans about her depressing defeat in opposition to Sonia Gandhi. At the sight of Sonia breezing in, Prasada reportedly stated: “After giving me an innings defeat, my sight possibly makes her (Sonia) feel reassured. The match was fixed behind my back, but I don’t claim that I would have won if she’d played it straight.”
Two months after he was handed a extreme pasting by Sonia Gandhi within the social gathering elections, Prasada suffered a large mind haemorrhage, and after being in a deep coma for days, he died on 16 January 2001.