SP founding member Beni Prasad Verma passes away

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Updated At : 02:47 AM Mar 28, 2020 IST

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Lucknow, March 27

Beni Prasad Verma, a founding member of the Samajwadi Party and former Union minister who was considered close to party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, passed away on Friday. He was 80.

The Rajya Sabha MP was not well for the past few days. He was admitted to a private hospital in Lucknow, where he died around 7 pm, his son Rakesh Verma told PTI.

Verma was the telecom minister between 1996-1998 in then Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s cabinet and was the steel minister in the Congress-led UPA government.

After his death, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav reached the hospital and condoled his death. Verma is survived by three sons and two daughters. PTI

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