Tue Jul 02 2013
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma kicked up another controversy
with his barbs at friend-turned foe Mulayam Singh Yadav, saying that the
SP chief was not even fit to sweep the Prime Minister's residence,
drawing instant rebuke from the Congress.
"Yadav wants to become Prime Minister. He should first try to get the
job of a sweeper at the residence of the PM," 77-year Verma said at a
programme in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad. He prefaced his remark by
alleging that the SP was a party based on "lies and fraud" and that it
will be finished by the Congress.
Verma was once a close confidant of the Samajwadi Party
supremo but was gradually sidelined after Amar Singh came into the
picture. The Kurmi leader quit the party in 2007 and joined the Congress
before 2009 Lok Sabha elections. 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. When asked by
reporters whether the party would initiate disciplinary action against
Verma, who has been making controversial statements against Yadav, Afzal
said that Verma is a Union Minister and wondered what action can the
party take.
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