ex-cabinet minister biding time
THE newly appointed Minister of State for Steel, Beni Prasad Verma, is back from a long period in oblivion. He once served as a Cabinet Minister, with the telecommunication portfolio. So this appointment as Minister of State, albeit with independent charge, must be hard to take for the Kurmi leader of eastern UP and staunch opponent of Mulayam Singh Yadav. His house at Kushak Road, once deserted, is now bustling with visitors. It has been refurbished and new furniture and upholstery brought in. Visitors are served tea while he downs glass after glass of butter milk.
Benibabu has never forgotten his friends, especially a veteran Congress leader from Rajasthan, Sheesh Ram Ola, who helped him in his hour of need. He tells everybody about the octogenarian Ola’s generosity. He also pontificates on how much influence he wields in his area and how his being a Cabinet Minister would help the Congress but nobody’s listening in Delhi. That doesn’t prevent him from always having a helicopter at his disposal, for many steel PSUs own choppers.
THE newly appointed Minister of State for Steel, Beni Prasad Verma, is back from a long period in oblivion. He once served as a Cabinet Minister, with the telecommunication portfolio. So this appointment as Minister of State, albeit with independent charge, must be hard to take for the Kurmi leader of eastern UP and staunch opponent of Mulayam Singh Yadav. His house at Kushak Road, once deserted, is now bustling with visitors. It has been refurbished and new furniture and upholstery brought in. Visitors are served tea while he downs glass after glass of butter milk.
Benibabu has never forgotten his friends, especially a veteran Congress leader from Rajasthan, Sheesh Ram Ola, who helped him in his hour of need. He tells everybody about the octogenarian Ola’s generosity. He also pontificates on how much influence he wields in his area and how his being a Cabinet Minister would help the Congress but nobody’s listening in Delhi. That doesn’t prevent him from always having a helicopter at his disposal, for many steel PSUs own choppers.
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