Overview

• Mayawati appointed nephew Akash Anand as national convenor/national coordinator, placing him in charge of party operations below her.
• She expanded the national coordinators to six, naming Ramji Gautam, Randhir Singh Beniwal, Raja Ram, Lalji Medhankar, Atar Singh Rao and Dharamveer Singh Ashok.
• Akash Anand will launch a Yuva Adhikar Yatra in Bihar in mid-September to mobilise support, with an agenda centered on migration, jobs and education.
• BSP leaders say the party will contest all seats in Bihar, while party sources indicate the organisation will concentrate resources on roughly 50 constituencies.
• Mayawati also named or retained state presidents across more than 20 states, keeping Vishwanath Pal in Uttar Pradesh and appointing Shankar Mahto in Bihar, as Ramji Gautam took charge of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Bihar.