After Union law minister Salman Khurshid, it is certain that steel minister Beni Prasad Verma will now apologise to the Election Commission (EC) for allegedly violating the model code of conduct in Uttar Pradesh. The poll panel has asked Verma to reply to its notice by Monday. The EC has described the minister's speech, where he promised higher job quotas to Muslims, as violating the model code "willfully and deliberately" because he had dared the poll panel to slap a notice on him and he was well aware of the Khurshid case.