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MEERUT: Days after it cemented an alliance with Samajwadi Party for Lok Sabha elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) appointed its MLA Yakub Qureshi as in-charge of Meerut-Hapur seat on Tuesday. She has asked me to tell you all that Yakub Qureshi has been finalised as in-charge for Meerut-Hapur seat for Lok Sabha polls.”Soon after the announcement, there was cheer and applaud among the crowd. The BSP leader had hit the headlines in 2006 when he had announced Rs 51-crore bounty on the head of a Danish cartoonist for making ‘blasphemous’ cartoons on Islam. SP and BSP have come together only to throw BJP out of power. For the first time, SP and BSP workers got together to celebrate Mayawati’s 63rd birthday in Meerut on Tuesday as they cut a 63-kg cake here..