Now, BSP chief’s kin can’t hold party posts

tribune News Service

Lucknow, May 26

In an attempt to free the BSP of the blame of dynastic rule, party national president Mayawati on Saturday amended the party’s constitution barring close relatives of party president from holding organisational posts.

During the BSP national executive, she announced that her brother Anand Kumar, who had become BSP’s national vice president after the Assembly poll reversal last year, will now remain an ordinary member of the party. She said in future no national president, including her, would appoint any close relative for any organisational post of the party. However, they were free to work as ordinary members.

According to Mayawati, she decided on this following charge that like other parties the BSP was also succumbing to dynastic rule abandoning the principles of its founder Kanshi Ram. The pressure from other siblings and family members for party posts was another reason for taking this tough decision, she said.

Meanwhile, the national executive made several decisions to gear up the party for the challenging electoral battle at the national level. UP state chief Ramachal Rajbhar has been promoted as the national general secretary and made coordinator of three states. The new UP BSP president is BSP MLC RS Kushwaha. BSP UP legislature party leader Lalji Verma has been made coordinator of Chhattisgarh and Ashok Siddharth for South India. Vir Singh and Jai Prakash Singh have been appointed national coordinator.