Controversial leader and meat baron Haji Yakub Qureshi will contesting the upcoming national elections from Meerut-Hapur seat against BJP’s sitting Member of Parliament Rajendra Agrawal.

A controversial figure in his own right, Qureshi had announced a bounty of rupees 51 crore for beheading the cartoonists of France based publication Charlie Hebdo for publishing the cartoon of Prophet Mohammad.

Qureshi later announced to give the said amount to the terrorists who had attacked the office of Charlie Hebdo with lethal weapons and killed 12 people including 8 journalists.

He was also allegedly involved in attacking an environment activist who had launched a movement against pollution and ill effects caused by mass meat plants.

Qureshi is the owner of meat company Al Fahim Meatex Private Limited which is said to be one of the largest buffalo meat exporters in India. His meat company has recently been under the scanner of law enforcement authorities regarding certain illegalities.

Recently, his daughter allegedly barged into a Meerut school with a whip and thrashed a few girls who complained about her niece’s bunking school.

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