Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati named her nephew Akash Anand as her political successor on Sunday in Lucknow, according to a senior office bearer of the BSP. The occasion was an all India party meeting
“Akash Anand has been declared the uttaradhikari (heir) by Behanji (Mayawati). She asked us to work hard for the 2024 parliamentary polls,” Udayveer Singh, BSP district head from Shahjahanpur told reporters in Lucknow. The BSP’s official statement issued after the meeting did not mention any such decision or anything about leadership succession. Mr. Singh, added that Mr. Anand, has been given the responsibility of strengthening the organisation in different states, where the party is weak, apart from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
