Mayawati removes Akash Anand as her successor and BSP national coordinator She said her brother and Akash's father Anand Kumar will continue to fulfil his responsibilities as before. On April 28, Akash Anand was booked in a case of violation of Model Code of Conduct along with four others for allegedly using objectionable language at a poll rally in Sitapur.
The action had come after the district administration took suo motu cognisance of Anand's speech at the rally. Targeting PM Modi would lead to retaliation, says Mayawati's nephew Akash Anand "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," Akash Anand had said in criticism of the BJP-led state government.
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