Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Beni Prasad Verma passes away at 79

Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Beni Prasad Verma passes away at 79

Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Beni Prasad Verma passes away at 79

Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Beni Prasad Verma died in Lucknow after a long illness. He was 79. Beni Prasad Verma was the founding member of Samajwadi Party and former Union minister.

Beni Prasad Verma was the telecom minister between 1996-1998 in the then prime minister HD Deve Gowda's cabinet and was the steel minister in the Congress-led UPA government.

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