BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday said Akash Anand has been displaying maturity and prioritising the party over family following his father-in-law Ashok Siddharth’s retirement from politics as she announced a series of programmes to be addressed by her nephew across Uttar Pradesh and other states.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also said there was no question of taking Siddharth back into the party. In a post on X, Mayawati said Anand, who was recently reappointed as the BSP’s national coordinator, had been displaying maturity and prioritising the party and the movement over family and personal relationships following Siddharth’s retirement from politics. Mayawati said Anand’s renewed involvement in party activities showed that Siddharth was more responsible for the “unpleasant developments” of the past than her nephew. She said Siddharth had been expelled from the party and advised to retire from politics. “There is not an iota of truth in the rumours that Ashok Siddharth, like Akash Anand, will be taken back into the party,” Mayawati said, making it clear that Siddharth would not be readmitted under any circumstances. In another announcement, Mayawati said Akash Anand’s brother Ishan Anand has completed his law studies in London and would assist the BSP at its central office in Delhi as an active worker under her guidance.
