Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Saturday said the party would continue to give Gen-Z about 50 per cent space in its organisation and would prioritise hardworking young candidates from all sections of society in the coming Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab Assembly elections. In the same statement she announced what she called her “final decision and pledge”: neither of her brother Anand Kumar’s sons would be given any political post in the BSP.

The long Hindi statement, posted on X, framed both moves as part of the same Ambedkarite project: to keep the party free of familyism, expand participation, and carry forward what she described as Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s mission of self-respect and “self-upliftment through power.”

Mayawati said the process of bringing Gen-Z into the organisation “up to about fifty per cent” had already been under way for a long time, especially in Uttar Pradesh. That policy would now also apply to ticket distribution. “Dedicated and young talents from all sections of society” would get priority so that “the expected Ambedkarite politics and constitutional values can develop rapidly through the new generation,” and so that the Constitution’s “humanitarian, egalitarian and secular purpose” could be implemented on the ground.

She recalled BSP’s four terms in Uttar Pradesh, describing those governments as having combined “rule of law by the Iron Lady of the law” with public welfare. Roads, electricity, water, education, health, government jobs, schools, hospitals, urban and rural development, and the “basic needs of Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha” had been taken up with “strong will,” she said. Schools, colleges, universities, hostels, training centres and parks had been set up; forced migration had been checked. After the party lost power in 2012, she alleged, “rule of law” had not been maintained, people’s lives had become “distressed,” and official claims of development had not filled stomachs. Casteist attitudes of rival parties, she said, had blocked a fifth term.

Party workers were told to pick “good people from all society” as candidates and to give priority to youth, both women and men.

“Today this is my final decision and pledge,” she wrote, “that none of his sons in particular will be given the opportunity to remain in the BSP in any small or big post and do politics.” If Anand Kumar later needed another person to assist him while staying with her, he could take the help only of his only daughter, Kumari Deepika Anand, who is studying law. Depending on her honesty, loyalty and working capacity, he could then assign her responsibilities as needed. He would not assign those duties to either son or, later, to their children. If the daughter was not ready, he could, with the party’s consensus, hand the work to another “missionary worker” from the Dalit community in the party, but not to his sons.

She said she remained “fully firm” against familyism as Kanshi Ram’s disciple. “If I were not a girl, I would not have kept any of my brothers and sisters with me, just like Manyavar Kanshi Ram ji.” Being a woman, she said, she had needed her youngest brother for security and to work in the party with dignity. With his children now grown and married she was facing difficulties, “but I will not allow any harm to the party by falling into attachment.”

The same rule would apply in the organisation and, if the party formed a government, in office: only the person given a responsibility would get the opportunity; other family members would not receive benefits “under that cover.” The aim, she said, was that BSP remain free of familyism so that “the largest possible number of people from all society can become partners in the movement for social change and economic liberation.”

Mayawati asked workers to stay alert to “poisonous, conspiratorial, sponsored and paid propaganda” from rival parties, “casteist media” and social media, whose purpose she said was to stop BSP from forming a government in Uttar Pradesh. They should remain committed “body, mind and resources” to the Ambedkarite mission.

She also dismissed as “completely false and fake news” claims that people expelled for indiscipline or anti-party activity would be taken back. “Such people will not be taken back into the BSP at all.”

The statement comes days after internal changes involving Anand Kumar’s sons Akash Anand and Ishan Anand, and ahead of the 2027 Assembly cycle in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab.