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Meat unit equity: Company filings show why BJP's Sangeet Som should quit politics (like he promised)
The MLA vowed that he would quit politics if his association with Al Dua Food Processing Private Limited was proved. Here is the evidence.
M Rajshekhar · 9 Oct 2015
Meat unit equity: Company filings show why BJP's Sangeet Som should quit politics (like he promised)
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On Friday, the Hindustan Times reported that Sangeet Singh Som, the Bharatiya Janata Party member of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly from Sardhana, along with two others, had acquired land for a meat-processing plant in Aligarh.
The report said that land for the company Al Dua Food Processing Private Limited was purchased by Som, who happened to be one of its three directors, along with Moinuddin Qureshi and Yogesh Rawat.
Al Dua Food Processing Private Limited, on its website, describes itself as a “leading producer and exporter of “HALAL MEAT” from India” and a specialist in the export of “halal buffalo, sheep/lamb, goat meat and hides”.
Som, who had visited Bishara village in Dadri tehsil earlier this month and said the UP government was shielding cow killers, responded to the newspaper's questions and "admitted that he had purchased the land a few years ago but claimed that he was unaware of being appointed as a director of the company".
According to the report, Som said: “I am a Hindu hardliner hence there is no chance of getting involved in activities which are against my religion.”
Som was also quoted as saying that he would quit politics if his role in the factory was proved. Maybe he should.
Al Dua's statutory filings with the Ministry of Company Affairs show Som was a director from the time the company was founded in 2005 and remained on the board until 2008. Further, this is not the only meat exporting firm that Som has been involved with. There is also Al-Anam Agro Foods.
But let's take a look at Al Dua Food Processing first. ...
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