The Bahujan Samaj Party on Monday suspended its sitting MLA from Meerut city, Haji Yaqub Qureshi, on disciplinary grounds. Yaqub is the same person who had publicly announced a reward of Rs 51 crore on the head of a Danish cartoonist in 2006.
The BSP said Yaqub was suspended for his alleged objectionable remarks about the Sikh community during the inauguration of a slaughterhouse in Meerut.
Chief Minister Mayawati, who is also national president of her party, has issued instructions not to allow Qureshi at any party programme.
But sources said the action came because of his brother Yusuf Qureshi's decision to join the Congress. The Congress has already given a ticket to Yusuf for contesting the 2012 Assembly polls from Meerut city.
“The party was not ready to see the two brothers — Yaqub and Yusuf — as candidates of BSP and Congress, respectively, in the same Meerut district. It could have sent a wrong impression to its core voters and the action against Yaqub was inevitable,” a source in the BSP said.
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