Jitin Prasada
Jitin Prasada in 2013
Minister of Public Works Department Government of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 March 2022 (2022-03-25)
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath
Preceded by	Keshav Prasad Maurya
Minister of Technical Education Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office 26 September 2021 – 25 March 2022
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath
Preceded by	Kamal Rani Varun
Succeeded by	Ashish Singh Patel
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2021 (2021-10-01)
Constituency	Nominated by Governor
Minister of State for Human Resource Development
In office 28 October 2012 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	M. M. Pallam Raju
Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways
In office 19 January 2011 – 28 October 2012
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	C. P. Joshi
Minister of state for Petroleum & Natural Gas
In office 28 May 2009 – 19 january 2011
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	Murli Deora
Minister of state for Steel
In office 6 April 2008 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	Ram Vilas Paswan
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 2009–2014
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Rekha Verma
Constituency	Dhaurara
In office 2004–2009
Preceded by	Rammurti Singh Verma
Succeeded by	Mithlesh Kumar
Constituency	Shahjahanpur
Personal details
Born	(1973-11-29) 29 November 1973 (age 50) Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (2021–present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (2001–2021)
Parents	Jitendra Prasada Kanta Prasada
Residence	Shahjahanpur
Alma mater	The Doon School, Dehradun Sherwood College, Nainital Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi

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 184,509 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]

Early life

Prasada was born in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh to politician Jitendra Prasada and his wife Kanta Prasada. 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).^[11][12] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

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.^[13][14][15]