Union Minister of Steel, Beni Prasad Verma condemned attack at Party’s state head-quarter and claimed that it is high time that the Party should awaken from it’s slumber and used Youth Congress wing activists to stop such subversive forces to dare to enter Party’s office in the future for any kind of undemocratic move.
Beni, who also met Rabe Hassan Nadwi, rector of darul-uloom Nadwatul ulema, religious seminary popularly known as `Nadwa’, to seek his blessings made the above comments soon after visiting the Party office to look into the damages and to meet the Congress workers who were injured in the attack, on Saturday afternoon. `I came here just to awaken the Congress leaders from their slumber and ask them to get ready and deploy 100 youth Congress leaders so no could dare to enter office premises in the future for such kind of destructing activities", Beni claimed.
When asked whether the Congress would retaliate if the administration failed to take appropriate action, Beni claimed that his Party is a disciplined force and that they believe in peace and not violence. ``Congress believes in peace but still one should get themselves ready so that no one could come and beat us in our own home", claimed Beni while calling the leaders to get more active. Replying to a question that such intrusion of Congress office has now been a regular practice just because the State president,
Nirmal Kharti along with incharge of Party affairs here in UP, Madhusudan Mistri, both were busy in their own elections had left the Party office like a `orphanage’, Union Minister said that no there are some senior leaders who were still in the Party office but the need of the hours is to galvanise them to make the Party more active. Interestingly, Beni defended the Akhilesh Yadav’s government on the issue of attack at Party’s office as alleged by other senior leaders who accused both Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janta Party of shaking hands to facilitate the goons to vandalise the Party office.
``I see no role of Samajwadi Party’s government in the attack at Congress office but I can confidently say that as there is total break of law and order situation in the present regime hence the morale of the goons and criminal elements is so high that they even dared to ransack the oldest political party’s office and that too in Raj Bhawan vicinity", Beni claimed while making the poor law and order responsible for the attack. He also demanded arrest of Ganga Charan Rajput and threatened that if the administration failed to nab the real culprits than Congress would not also sit quite and take up the issue to it’s logical conclusion.
later in the evening, Beni Prasad Verma along with other senior Congress leaders including Siddharth Priya Srivastava, Dr Masood, JP Singh etc visited Nadwa and met Rabe Hassan Nadwi, rector of darul-uloom Nadwatul ulema, religious seminary popularly known as `Nadwa’. Seeking blessing for his victory along with all the other candidates of the Party, Verma’s hails Rabe Hassan’s contribution to make the institution as one of the most respectable academic place in the world. Sources confirmed that Rabe Hassan forwarded his wishes to Beni Prasad and gave his blessings for his victory in the Parliament elections.
Meanwhile former member of parliament Ganga Charan Rajput sought to dissociate himself with his son Brajbhushan Rajput and Bundelkhan Adhikar Sena in the wake of attack on Congress state headquarters in lucknow on Friday. Rajput, in a statement here, said that he had nothing do with the organisation whose activists had stormed the UP Congress Committee office. Also, he would not own the acts of his son whose name was cropped up in the incident, he said adding he had some ideological differences with him. Condemning the violent attack on the Congress office, Rajput said no believer in democratic values would appreciate such acts and it should be condemned by all. Seeking apology from the Congress leaders, he urged themnot to lodge false cases against him in this regard. He also distanced himself from the Bharatiya Janata Party saying after retiring from the politics he was not associated with any party and fighting for the cause of development of Bundelkhand on his own.