Congress leader Sajjan Singh Verma claimed that Jitin Prasada joined the BJP as he had suffered election losses three times.
You need to be patient in politics, said Verma and added that Prasad may have decided to switch over to the saffron party as he felt there was no point in continuing in the Congress after the election losses, reports ANI.
Verma said Prasada made a mistake by joining the BJP and added that he should have joined the Samajwadi Party instead as according to him, the BJP will not be victorious in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Prasada, a member of the group of 23 Congress leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi seeking an organisational overhaul and elections at all levels last year, quit the Congress Wednesday to join the BJP ahead of next year's assembly elections in UP.
Prasada had, on Thursday, said he left the Congress not because of any individual or for any post, but due to its shrinking vote base and the "rising disconnect" between the party and the people of Uttar Pradesh.
"I left the Congress not due to any individual or for any post. The reason I left the Congress was because there is a rising disconnect between the party and the people. And that is the reason, its vote share is shrinking in Uttar Pradesh and there is no plan to revive the party," he had said.
—With PTI inputs
