Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has removed his nephew Akash Anand from two key posts in the party -- as BSP's National Coordinator and her successor, terming him immature. Taking to social media platform X, Mayawati wrote, "I declared Akash Anand as the National Coordinator of BSP and my successor, but in the larger interest of the party and the movement, he is being separated from both these important responsibilities until he attains full maturity".
In a series of posts, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said, "It is known that BSP is not only a party but also a movement for self-respect and social change of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, for which it is valid. Shri Kanshi Ram ji and I have dedicated our entire lives and the new generation is also being prepared to give momentum to this."
In the same sequence, along with promoting other people in the party, Akash Anand was declared the National Coordinator and his successor, but he will not be given these two important responsibilities until he attains full maturity in the larger interest of the party and the movement," she added.
However, his father Anand Kumar will continue to fulfill his responsibilities in the party. The leadership of BSP is not going to shy away from making sacrifices in the interest of the party and taking the caravan of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar forward.
On April 28, Akash Anand was booked in a case of violation of the Model Code of Conduct along with four others for allegedly using objectionable language at a poll rally in Sitapur. The action had come after the district administration took suo motu cognisance of Anand's speech at the rally.
"This government is a bulldozer government and a government of traitors. The party that leaves its youth hungry and enslaves its elderly is a terrorist government. Taliban runs such a government in Afghanistan," he had said in criticism of the BJP-led state government.
Besides Anand, BSP candidates Mahendra Yadav, Shyam Awasthi, and Akshay Kalra and rally organiser Vikas Rajvanshi were booked in the matter, Superintendent of Police (Sitapur) Chakresh Mishra had then said.
The case was registered under sections IPC 171C (undue influence at elections), 153B (imputation, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and section 125 of the Representation of People Act.
With inputs from PTI
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