New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said it is not considering any proposal to include new sectors under the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme. Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada said approved products under PLI schemes have been strategically selected to align with national goals, increase production capacity, enhance global competitiveness and … Read more
As BJP completes government formation in the four states it won in the recent assembly polls with the swearing of Goa government on Monday, one message it sends out is that good work gets rewarded to both insiders and outsiders. BJP’s formula of success, election after election, seems to be to attract talent from other … Read more
Jitin Prasad, who has been rewarded with a cabinet berth in the Yogi Adityanath government for his recent switch from the Congress to the BJP, has said he is “thankful” for what he got. “It is not about promotion or demotion, it’s about the intent to serve the people and whatever opportunity and responsibility I … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Sep 26, 2021) With an attempt to set the caste balance right and give more representation to most backwards and schedule castes before the state polls next year, chief minister Yogi Adityanath inducted seven new ministers into his cabinet on Sunday. Jitin Prasada, a Brahmin — whose induction was … Read more
Soon after his Congress colleague Jitin Prasada quit the party to join the BJP, Milind Deora on Wednesday said the Congress must reclaim its position as India’s big tent party and asserted that it still has a strong bench which, if empowered and optimally utilised, can deliver. A former chief of the Mumbai Congress, Deora, … Read more
LUCKNOW: Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada on Saturday said while it has been a long-standing demand of party workers that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra be the party’s face in the 2022 UP Assembly elections, it is a “strategic decision” to be taken by the “Congress Working Committee and Priyanka ji herself”. Prasada, who is a special … Read more