Beni slams SP over brahmin meeting
Union minister Beni Prasad Varma on Tuesday slammed the Samajwadi Party for deviating from its ideology and hosting the “Brahmin Sammelan”.
Addressing a press conference here, Mr Varma said that the Samajwadi Party claimed to be a follower of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia but its actions prove otherwise.
“Lohia propagated a casteless society and gave the slogan Jaati todo, Samaj jodo but the Samajwadi Party is actually promoting casteism by organising Brahmin Sammelan. This amounts to betraying Lohia and his thoughts and losing grip on one’s ideology. The Samajwadi Party is now going directionless,” he said.
He said that a party that disconnects with its ideology can never lead the state and country to progress and development.
“The socialist movement also belongs to late Choudhury Charan Singh but he banned schools over casteist names in the state which proves that he was opposed to casteism. He worked for various other groups like farmers, youth, women, dalits and weaker sections but never on the basis of caste,” the minister explained.
Continuing his tirade against the Samajwadi Party, Mr Varma said that Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav had a nexus with the BJP even during the Ayodhya movement because he knew that polarisation of Hindu votes would lead to a counter polarisation of Muslim votes and this would benefit him.
“Mulayam Singh had spoken to L.K. Advani in October 1990 and the Babri mosque would have fallen then had it not been for some official, including the then SSP Faizabad who ordered firing and saved the mosque. As the then chief minister Mulayam Singh deployed only one company of Central forces in Ayodhya and scattered the remaining companies across other districts,” he recalled and added that the firing on “kar sevaks” on November 2, 1990 was also pre-planned because it served a political purpose for both, BJP and SP.
Mr Varma said that the BJP had repaid the “debt” when it “allowed Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav to form his government in UP in 2003 with only 135 MLAs”. “Kesri Nath Tripathi was made to continue as Speaker till he formalised the split in the BSP and gave his verdict,” he said.
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