Jitin Prasada


Jitin Prasada is an Indian politician from India and former Minister of State for Human Resource. He was representing Dhaurahra of district Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh in 15th Lok Sabha, where he won by votes.

Early life

Born in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh to politician Jitendra Prasad, and his wife Kanta Prasada. His mother Kanta hails from Himachal Pradesh.
He studied at The Doon School, Dehradun and did his B.Com. from the Sri Ram College of Commerece, Delhi University and completed his MBA from IMI, New Delhi.
His grandfather Jyoti Prasada was a Congress party member and served legislative and local body positions. His grandmother Pamela Prasad belonged to the Royal Sikh family of Kapurthala. His great grandfather Jwala Prasada was a Colonial Civil Service officer and great grandmother Purnima Devi, youngest daughter of Hemendranath Tagore brother of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Political career

In 2001, Jitin Prasada started his career with IYC 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 Sahbha from his hometown constituency of Shahjahanpur, UP.
In his first tenure as Member of the Parliament Jitin Prasada was inducted as Minister of State for Steel and was one of the youngest minister in the Cabinet.
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 during his tenure as Union minister of state for Steel in 2008.
For the 14th Lok Sabha, Jitin held the positions for Committee on Petitions ; Committee on Information Technology and Communications ; Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Steel.
He lost his seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha Election to Rekha Verma of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Personal life

Jitin Prasada married in February 2010 to Neha Seth, a former TOI and CNN IBN journalist.