No point being in a party if you can't help people: Jitin Prasada on leaving Congress
Jitin Prasada said if there was one party in the country that talks in national interest then it is the BJP.
Congress leader and former Union minister Jitin Prasada, who joined the BJP on Wednesday, has said there was no point being in a party "if you cannot help the people".
Jitin Prasada joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Piyush Goyal at the party headquarters in New Delhi. Addressing the press, he said, "I was associated with Congress for three generations. I’ve taken this decision after a lot of thought."
"If you cannot be of any help to people and protect their interests, then what’s the point? I felt I couldn’t do that in the Congress," he said.
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Jitin Prasada said if there was one party in the country that talks in the national interest, then it is the BJP. "If anyone standing with the country and its people in these testing times, then it’s BJP and PM Modi. Others have become regional parties," he said.
"I’d heard this would be a deciding decade for India. PM Modi is working hard in the service of this country. We’ve faced challenges and public had distanced itself from us," Prasada said.
"I look forward to the representation I get to play in the formation of ‘New India’," he added.
BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, who left the Congress last year to join the saffron party, said, "I’m happy that he is joining the BJP under the leadership of PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. He is my younger brother and I’m happy for him."
Jitin Prasada has been facing the heat in Uttar Pradesh Congress after he joined the group of 23 Congress rebels who wrote an explosive letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi questioning the functioning of the party.
The local unit of Congress had passed a resolution demanding action against Jitin Prasada and others for allegedly challenging Sonia Gandhi's leadership. Jitin Prasada had been sidelined in the Congress for quite some time.
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