Union Steel Minister and senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Tuesday charged SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav with violating the ideology of Ram Manohar lohia by organising Brahmin sammelans. He also charged the SP with conniving with the BJP in the attempt to demolish the Babri mosque on October 30, 1990.
“lohia always opposed caste-based politics and gave the slogan of ‘Jaat toro, samaj joro’. By holding Brahmin sammelans, the SP has proved that it has moved away from the ideology of the great Socialist thinker for the sake of vote-bank politics,” Verma stressed, while speaking to newspersons in lucknow on Tuesday.
Regretting his two-decade old truck with the SP chief, Verma said that there was a plot by then CM Mulayam Singh Yadav with the BJP to demolish the Babri mosque on October 30, 1990.