Beni Prasad Verma
| Beni Prasad Verma | |
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| MP of Rajya Sabha for Uttar Pradesh | |
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Assumed office 5 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Jugul Kishore, BSP |
| Constituency | Uttar Pradesh |
| Minister of Steel | |
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Assumed office 19 Jan 2011 - 26 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Virbhadra Singh |
| Succeeded by | Narendra Singh Tomar |
| MP | |
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Assumed office 2009-2014 |
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| Preceded by | Kirti Vardhan Singh |
| Succeeded by | Kirti Vardhan Singh |
| Constituency | Gonda |
| MP | |
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In office 1996 - 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Laxminarain Mani Tripathi |
| Succeeded by | Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh |
| Constituency | Kaiserganj |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 February 1941 Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh |
| Political party | Samajwadi Party |
| Spouse(s) | Malti Devi |
| Children | 3 sons and 2 daughters |
| Residence | Sirauli Gauspur, Barabanki district |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| As of May 13, 2016 Source: [2] |
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Beni Prasad Verma (born 11 February 1941) is an Indian politician and presently a member of the Samajwadi Party. Earlier he was with Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav, before leaving to join the Indian National Congress.
Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh into a kurmi family.
Beni Prasad Verma was steel Minister of Indian Government. He was the Public Works Department minister for the State of Uttar Pradesh in India for several years.
He served as the Union Communications Minister in Deve Gowda's cabinet from 1996-98.
He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. In 2009, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from Gonda constituency in Uttar Pradesh state as an Indian National Congress candidate and on July-12-2011 was appointed the Steel Minister in Manmohan Singh Government.
In 2016, he rejoined the Samajwadi Party.
Beni Prasad Verma has established educational institutions Charan Singh Mahavidyalay at Bardari near Badosarai and Mahanlal Verma Educational Educational Institute in his home district of Barabanki.
In December 2009 during a debate session in Lok Sabha, Beni Prasad had made controversial remarks for Former Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he used "man of low stands" for Mr. Vajpayee. This created serious agitation among BJP leaders protested immediately by shouting, they stalled parliament and demanded an apology. Home Minister P Chidambaram apologized for the remark, but the BJP said it would boycott the Lok Sabha till Verma apologises, But Verma refused to apologise.
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