MAYAWATI’S NEPHEW AKASH ANAND DUBBED BJP GOVERNMENT ‘AATANKWADIYON KI SARKAR’

LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati’s action against nephew Akash Anand, the son of her younger brother Anand Kumar, comes after he was charged with using “unparliamentary language” during poll rallies at Sitapur and Unnao. Akash stands accused of branding the BJPled govt “aatankwadiyon ki sarkar”, “tabahi ki sarkar” and “Taliban ki sarkar” in Sitapur, and exhorting his supporters to assault BJP workers. Mayawati wrote that her decision was “in the larger interest of the party and the (Bahujan) movement”.

Besides him, 39 others were named in the FIR. Mayawati said her sibling and Akash's father would continue to hold the position and responsibilities the party had given him.

She said BSP was not just a party but a continuation of the movement initiated by BR Ambedkar, “and for which Manyavar Kanshiram ji and I devoted our entire lives”. “The new generation is being prepared by the party to take this movement ahead, and it was in the same line that (I) made Akash Anand the national coordinator of the party and declared him my political successor,” she wrote. “BSP will never back off from making sacrifices in party’s interest and in taking Babasaheb’s movement ahead.”

This was Akash’s first experience of campaigning in UP since being declared Mayawati’s political successor. Starting his campaign at Nagina on April 6, he addressed 10 rallies in western UP and eight in Purvanchal.