Faizabad: Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Wednesday gave a controversial comment on Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. In a program of Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh, 77 year old Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma said, “Yadav wants to become Prime Minister. He should first try to get the job of a sweeper at the residence of the PM.” Verma prefaced his remark by alleging that the SP is a party based on “lies and fraud” and that will be finished by the Congress.
Beni Prasad Verma was once a good friend of Mulayam Singh and very close to Mulayam Singh had turned to foe. After leaving SP in 2007 and joining Congress, Beni usually comments on Mulayam Singh and attack on SP. Congress had lambaste to Verma instantly after his comment on Mulayam Singh.
Disapproving of Verma’s remarks, Congress once again ticked him off for his remarks against Yadav saying it was “regrettable and the party totally distances itself from that”.
“I do not know whether he has said anything like this, but if he has done so, it is regrettable. Mulayam Singh Yadav is a big leader and has been in politics for a long time. Verma was an old friend of Yadav.
“The party totally distances itself from it. It has nothing to do with it,” party spokesman Meem Afzal said in Delhi. Afzal said that Verma is a Union Minister and wondered what action can the party take.
Afzal sidestepped a volley of questions on the issue including whether it was time to tell Verma to stop making controversial statements against Yadav, whose party is a key outside supporter of the UPA at the Centre and whether he thinks that the Union Minister was a “habitual offender”.
“You know better than us”, he said when asked whether the party feels angry, embarrassed or helpless over Verma’s statements.
Bureau Report
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