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In a recent tweet, BSP chief announced the decision regarding the role of Akash Anand within the party. Mayawati said that she had initially designated Akash Anand as the National Coordinator of the BSP and her successor. However, considering the broader interests of the party and its movement, she has decided to temporarily relieve him of these crucial responsibilities until he achieves full maturity.
Akash's father Anand Kumar will continue to be in the party and fulfill responsibilities accordingly.
She added, "While his father Anand Kumar will continue to fulfill his responsibilities in the party and the movement as before. Therefore, the leadership of BSP is not going to shy away from making every kind of sacrifice in the interest of the party and the movement and in taking forward the caravan of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar."
The surprise decision comes on the day voting was held for the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls in the country.
Akash Anand has been drawing flak over his aggressive language in his addresses. An FIR was lodged against him a few days ago in Sitapur when he called the central government a government of atankwadis (terrorists).
"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.
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