| Jitin Prasada | |
| Birth Name: | Kunwar Jitin Prasada |
| Birth Date: | 1973 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Office: | Union Minister of State Government of India |
| Term Start: | 11 June 2024 |
| 1Blankname: | Ministry&Departments |
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| Predecessor: | Rajeev Chandrasekhar &<br/>Anupriya Patel |
| Term Start2: | 26 September 2021 |
| Term End2: | 25 March 2022 |
| Office1: | Cabinet Minister Government of Uttar Pradesh |
| Predecessor1: | Keshav Prasad Maurya |
| 1Blankname1: | Ministry&Departments |
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| Office3: | Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council |
| Office4: | Union Minister of State Government of India |
| Term Start4: | 28 October 2012 |
| Term End4: | 26 May 2014 |
| Primeminister4: | Manmohan Singh |
| Minister4: | M. M. Pallam Raju |
| Term Start5: | 19 January 2011 |
| Term End5: | 28 October 2012 |
| Primeminister5: | Manmohan Singh |
| Minister5: | C. P. Joshi |
| Term Start6: | 28 May 2009 |
| Term End6: | 19 january 2011 |
| Primeminister6: | Manmohan Singh |
| Minister6: | Murli Deora |
| Term Start7: | 6 April 2008 |
| Term End7: | 22 May 2009 |
| Term Start8: | 04 June 2024 |
| Predecessor8: | Varun Gandhi |
| Constituency8: | Pilibhit |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party (2021–present) |
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| Residence: | Hata Baba Sahab, Khirani Bag, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| Education: | |
| Children: | 2 |
| Otherparty: | Indian National Congress (2001–2021) |
| Term Start9: | 2009 |
| Term End9: | 2014 |
| Constituency9: | Dhaurara |
| Predecessor9: | Constituency established |
| Successor9: | Rekha Verma |
| Office8: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Termstart10: | 2004 |
| Termend10: | 2009 |
| Constituency10: | Shahjahanpur |
| Constituency3: | Nominated by Governor |
| Primeminister7: | Manmohan Singh |
| 2Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
| 2Namedata1: | Yogi Adityanath |
| Predecessor2: | Kamal Rani Varun |
| Predecessor10: | Rammurti Singh Verma |
| Successor2: | Ashish Singh Patel |
| Successor10: | Mithlesh Kumar |
| Minister7: | Ram Vilas Paswan |
| President: | Draupadi Murmu |
| Primeminister: | Narendra Modi |
| Minister: | Ashwini Vaishnaw |
| 1Blankname2: | Ministry&Departments |
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| 2Blankname2: | Chief Minister |
| 2Namedata2: | Yogi Adityanath |
| 1Blankname5: | Ministry&Departments |
| 1Blankname6: | Ministry&Departments |
| 1Blankname7: | Ministry&Departments |
| 1Blankname4: | Ministry&Departments |
| 1Namedata4: | Ministry of Human Resource Development |
| 1Namedata5: | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
| 1Namedata6: | Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| 1Namedata7: | Ministry of Steel |
Jitin Prasada (born 29 November 1973) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. 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, Government of India. He was representing Dhaurahra (Lok Sabha constituency) of district Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh in 15th Lok Sabha,[1] where he won by votes.[2] On 9 June 2021 Jitin Prasad quit the Indian National Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Prasada attended The Doon School, Dehradun at roughly the same time as politicians Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo and Dushyant Singh.[8] [9] [10]
Prasada was born in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh to politician Jitendra Prasada and his wife Kanta Prasada. He belongs to Brahmin caste.[11] He attended the all-boys' boarding school, The Doon School in Dehradun (where he was a contemporary of politicians Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo).[12] [13] He did a degree in commerce from the Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and then completed his MBA from International Management Institute, New Delhi.
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 Imperial Civil Service officer and great grandmother Purnima Devi, youngest daughter of Hemendranath Tagore brother of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.[14]
In 2001, Jitin Prasad started his career with Indian Youth Congress 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 delimitation process.
His promise of getting the Meter gauge railway track of the district Lakhimpur Kheri converted to Broad gauge gathered major support for his candidature during 2009 Parliamentary elections. He has laid down foundation stone of a Steel factory in his constituency Dhaurahra (Lok Sabha constituency) during his tenure as Union minister of state for Steel in 2008. For the 14th Lok Sabha, 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 West Bengal for Congress, ahead of 2021.
Prasad joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on June 9, 2021.[15] [16] [17]