Muzaffarnagar: MLA who 'shared video' that allegedly provoked mobs, hops parties, delights in guards
The video said to be of Muzaffarnagar violence was actually two years old and recorded in either Afghanistan or Pakistan.To his colleagues in the BJP, Sangeet Singh Som comes across as a party-hopper who revels in the aura created by a security ring — he moves around with five guards after having fought with the government for them. At 34, he is the youngest of the BJP's 47 MLAs in Uttar Pradesh but has already been in three parties, having been in the BSP and the Samjwadi Party before returning to the BJP for a second stint.
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Som, who has been accused of sharing a video that provoked mobs in Muzaffaranagar, could not be contacted, having switched off his phone since being named in two FIRs. But he was on IndiaNews channel Wednesday, denying the charge and that he was absconding; he was out of Meerut for treatment, he said.
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Many BJP leaders say they have known him only since he rejoined the party in December 2011. The impression they have of him is based on the number of times he has switched parties and his obsession with guards.
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Armed with the means — he declared assets of Rs 19 crore in his last election affidavit — he had been organising Rajput panchayats in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar when he caught the eye of the BSP, which in 2007 announced him as its candidate for Sardhana assembly constituency. He left the BSP after it decided not to field him.
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Som joined the BJP and left in 2009, this time after being denied a Lok Sabha ticket. He joined the SP, reportedly after he had impressed Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh with his Rajput panchayats. The SP fielded him from Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha seat and he lost.
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