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In the middle of the Lok Sabha elections on May 7, Mayawati termed Akash Anand immature and relieved him of the party post.
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Friday demanded a high-level inquiry into the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, saying the truth of the case needs to come before the public. Ansari, 63, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. In a
Talking to reporters at the state party office on her birthday, she categorically denied reports in a section of the media about her retirement from politics.
The party's official statement, however, did not mention any such decision.
Gandhi had on Saturday said that the Congress reached out to the BSP leader, offering her the chief minister's post for contesting the assembly polls together, but she did not respond.
She and her mentor Kanshi Ram have had caused many surprises in the past as it is the only party which had seat-sharing or coalition arrangements with all its three political rivals - BJP, Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP).
While the crisis has allowed political parties to make their presence felt and improve their image at the same time, it is evident that there would be, after all, politics at the end of it all.
BSP had contested the May 2018 assembly polls in a tie-up with JD(S).
In 1993, the BSP contested the Assembly election for the first time in alliance with the SP, and her party's tally went up five times to 65 from a mere 13 in 1989.
The announcement comes a day after the BSP supremo held a meeting with party workers to review her outfit's showing in the recent Lok Sabha polls.