Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday said her nephew Akash Anand has been removed from the post of the party’s national coordinator and her successor “in the larger interest of the party”.
Mayawati took to microblogging site X to announce the development. “I have 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 sidelined from both these important responsibilities until he attains full maturity,” he tweeted.
“His (Akash Anand) father Anand Kumar will continue to fulfill his responsibilities in the party and movement as before. Therefore, the leadership of BSP will not shy away from making every kind of sacrifice in the interest of the party and the movement and in taking the caravan of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar forward.
On April 28, a case of model code of conduct violation was registered against BSP chief Mayawati’s nephew Akash Anand and four others for using objectionable language at an election rally in Sitapur.
The BSP leader said, “This government is a bulldozer government and a government of traitors. The party which leaves its youth hungry and enslaves its elders is a terrorist government. Taliban runs such a government in Afghanistan.”
In his address, Akash Anand also cited the National Crime Records Bureau report of 16,000 kidnapping incidents in the state and accused the government of failing to provide security to women and children.
BJP is a party of thieves who loot. He further alleged that Rs 16,000 crore was raised through electoral bonds.
The case was registered against Anand, the BSP’s national coordinator, party candidates Mahendra Yadav, Shyam Awasthi, and Akshay Kalra, and rally organizer Vikas Rajvanshi, Superintendent of Police (Sitapur) Chakresh Mishra said.
Mishra said, the speech was given to incite violence and violate the model code of conduct by using unparliamentary language.
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Published: 07 May 2024, 09:59 PM IST
