Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati issued a long clarification today about the status of her nephew and presumed political heir Aakash Anand, after media reports that she termed “exaggeration”.
Akash Anand, she insisted, had never been expelled from the party owing to his earlier performance.
Most media outlets have exaggerated this matter quite a bit, writing that Mr. Aakash Anand was expelled from the party four times and has now been taken back into the party and made the National Coordinator again,” Mayawati’s post read.
Mayawati had reappointed Akash Anand as the party’s national convenor yesterday, reversing her month-old decision to remove him from the organisation. Aakash Anand was brought back into the BSP yesterday and appointed as the party’s National Coordinator again, and he has been engaged in the party’s work. However, today most media outlets have exaggerated this matter quite a bit, writing that Mr. Earlier reporting noted: After ‘sanyas’ of his father-in-law, no more need to separate Akash Anand from BSP: Mayawati Lucknow, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday said there would be no need to separate her nephew Akash Anand from the party anymore, as his father-in-law Ashok Siddharth has retired. Earlier reporting noted: In an X post in Hindi, Mayawati said Anand was brought back to the BSP on Monday and appointed as the party’s national coordinator, as he had been engaged in the party’s work.
The move yet another twist in the leadership issue of the party that once ruled Uttar Pradesh and broke fresh grounds with its championship of Dalits in one of the most caste sensitive states of the country. Most of the issues that made headlines involved Mayawati’s brother Anand Kumar and his two sons — Akash and Ishan Anand. Read: Month After Ouster, Mayawati Reappoints Nephew Akash Anand To Key Party Post “As it is known that Mr. Aakash Anand was expelled from the party four times and has now been taken back into the party and made the National Coordinator again,” her post read. “I want to inform you that even before Mr. But after his relationship with Mr. Ashok Siddharth – who made attempts to tarnish Mr.
Aakash Anand’s marriage, he was playing a very active role in the party, due to which he has never been expelled from the party.
Aakash Anand’s image quite a lot for his own selfish interests”. week later, on September 10, she announced that she was setting him “completely free” from the BSP, accusing him of placing family interests before that of the party. Earlier reporting noted: The statement comes a day after Mayawati announced Anand’s reappointment as the BSP’s national convener, a decision she took “in the interest of the organisation as well as the movement”.
