New Delhi, June 9: A former minister in Manmohan Singhgovernment and a senior congress leader Jitin Prasada on Wednesday joined theBJP in presence of Union Minister Piyush Goyal at the BJP headquarters.
The development came just ahead of the assembly elections inUttar Pradesh next year.
The 47-year-old Prasda is the son of former Congress VicePresident Jitendra Prasada and was considered a key aid to former CongressPresident Rahul Gandhi.
He won the elections for Parliament for the first time in2004 from Shahjahanpur, his family bastion. He was made a minister in theManmohan Singh government in 2008.
Prasada was a part of the G-23 group of the Congress leaderswho had written to Sonia Gandhi demanding reforms in the Congress party.