Verma was once a close confidant of the Samajwadi Party supremo but was gradually sidelined after Amar Singh came into the picture. The Kurmi leader quit the party in 2007 and joined the Congress before 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Verma, who also addressed his party workers in Gonda through mobile phone here, told them not to lose hope.
"Days of Mulayam Singh Yadav's government are numbered. Congress will once again form a government at the Centre. Rahul Gandhi will become the Prime Minister.
"Even in UP when there will be a Congress government in future, we will finish goondaism. Sugarcane farmers and Muslims are a harried lot in UP," Verma said, addressing party workers of Gonda, who were protesting against Samajwadi Party.
Recalling that Muslims had fought the Britishers, he said "children of the Muslims, who courted martyrdon are forced to live in tents on graveyards. Yadav should be ashamed of calling them conspirators.... No other politician could be so cruel."
The Union Minister said that "no big communal riot can happen in any state without a conspiracy by the government of the state there.
"...It was the planning of Modi's aide Amit Shah and Mulayam Singh Yadav to polarise votes on Hindu-Muslim lines in UP. Now since he is tottering as Muslims are angry at him, Yadav is gradually moving towards the BJP."
