Sangeet Singh Som | |
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Constituency | Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh |
Tehsil Road, Sardhana | |
Assumed office March 2012 |
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Member of Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 6 March 2012 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Mohammad Faridpur, Meerut |
1 January 1978
Political party | President B.J.P U.P= SANGEET SOM |
Spouse(s) | Preeti Som |
Children | 2 |
Residence | Mall Road, Meerut |
Religion | Hindu, Rajput |
Website | www |
Sangeet Singh Som is an Indian politician He is elected continually 2nd time M.L.A. from Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh. Bjp leader rajnath singh is a big rival and colleague of sangeet soam. Many times rajnath singh have not allowed sangeet to established themselves a big Rajput leader. Sangeet soam have very close relation with Uma bharti, Kalyan singh and amar singh.
Sangeet Som born in affluent agricultural family of Thakur Omveer Singh in Village Alamgeer (Faridpur) in Sardhana Tehsil of Meerut District. He completed his Secondary Education from K.K. Jain Inter college Khatauli a nearby city in Muzaffarnagar District in 1997. Sangeet Singh Som is married to Preeti Som Sangeet and has two children.
Sangeet Singh Som won from the Sardhana assembly seat with good margin and He is a very popular figure among the Hindu Population of the area and has been conferred the award “Hindu Hirday Samarat”, Mahathakur Sangharshveer, Sangharshveer etc. by different Hindu organizations.
He is one of the accused in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and was booked under the National Security Act on 24 September 2013. Justice Vishnu Sahai Commission's report on Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 has put him on top of the list of those it has found responsible for the flare-up. On 18 January 2017, Som was booked for showing clips from the riots as part of a documentary.
On 7 September 2015, Som alleged that the Samajwadi Party and the Uttar Pradesh police were discriminating on religious grounds in their probe in the Janmasthami clashes, which he said was biased.
Despite being known as an anti-beef campaigner, documentary evidence revealed that Som had been personally associated with two meat processing and export companies, Al-Dua and Al-Anam. Al-Dua has been described as one of India's leading halal meat export companies which exports meat to Arab countries. Speaking with the Hindustan Times on October 9, 2015, Som claimed he was unaware of having been made a director of Al-Dua, and that as a "Hindu hardliner" it was not possible for him to engage in such an activity. However, the next day, Som admitted to The Hindu that he was a director of Al-Dua for about two years. As per The Hindu, Al-Dua's company website states:"Al Dua Food Processing are specialists in the export of quality halal buffalo, sheep/lamb, goat meat and hides."