The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national political party in India. The party was founded by Kanshi Ram in 1984 to represent people of Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (SC), and Other Backward Classes (OBC), as well as those who belong to religious minorities. Its election symbol is an elephant. Currently, Mayawati is the national president of the party. In 2007, the party won the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections with a sole majority and Mayawati became the chief minister of the state. Interestingly, the electoral result showed the party’s majority in the polls was achieved in large part because it attracted a majority of upper castes votes from their traditional party – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BSP-led government became the first in the history of Uttar Pradesh to complete its full five-year term. However, the party could not retain power in the next Vidhan Sabha polls. The party managed to secure only 80 seats in the 2012 Assembly elections as against 206 in 2007. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP became the third-largest national party of India in terms of vote percentage with gaining 4.2 percent of the vote across the country but winning no seats. In the 2019 general elections, it was the second-largest party in UP with 19.3 percent of votes. More
Expulsion of her nephew Akash Anand from the party represents one more example of getting rid of people who have tried to revive it through a different approach. With a second rung leadership purged over the years, all that BSP party functionaries are left with is a distant leader whose problems with enforcement agencies have shrunk the potential of a political party that was once a dominant force in Uttar Pradesh
Police said that BSP leader Harbilas Singh Rajjumajra was accompanied by two friends, Puneet and Gugal, when the attack occurred while they were in their car on Friday evening. Puneet also sustained bullet injuries.
Mayawati also accused the Congress of ignoring the legacy of Ambedkar, the architect of India’s Constitution, and disrespecting him and his followers
By-elections to nine assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh were held on November 20 and results of it were declared on Saturday. Bahujan Samaj Party contested all nine seats but failed to win any.
In the aftermath of the Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati has consistently emphasised the welfare of the Bahujan Samaj, the broad coalition of marginalised communities that originally formed her party's base.
The decision was taken during a special meeting of the BSP Central Executive Committee (CEC) and senior national-level office bearers and state party units and representatives selected from all over the country.
Several opposition leaders raised questions about the police's version of events that led to the killing of the murder suspect K Thiruvengadam, and reiterated their demand that the BSP leader's murder be investigated by the CBI.
She claimed those who have been arrested so far were not the real culprits and urged Chief Minister M K Stalin to refer the probe to the Central agency to ensure justice to the victim.
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His remarks come after former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati announced her decision to remove Akash Anand from the position of party national co-ordinator and her political successor
On May 7, Bahujan Samaj Party National President Mayawati removed her nephew Akash Anand from the position of party national co-ordinator and her political successor. Less than five months back, when former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati had passed her mantle to Akash Anand and now on voting day of the phase 3, the surprising decision came. But who exactly is Akash Anand? And why was he removed?
Announcing the decision on X, Mayawati said she has taken the decision in the larger interest of the party and Akash is being removed from the positions till he attains "full maturity"
The action came after the district administration took suo motu cognisance of Anand’s speech at the rally earlier in the day, they said.
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Mukhtar Ansari started gaining prominence during the 1980s and 90s, a period characterised by the widespread criminalisation of politics in Uttar Pradesh. He was facing trial in various cases in courts of Delhi, Punjab, and multiple districts of Uttar Pradesh. Since 2020, the UP government and the UP police have intensified efforts to prosecute Ansari.