Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati’s decision to expel her nephew Akash Anand — a day after she removed him from the position of national coordinator for the second time in 10 months — draws attention to a beleaguered party. The BSP’s continuing internal disarray, combined with its unchecked electoral decline, has dulled the lustre of a party that once held out a radical promise of representation and empowerment of the most marginalised. Its failure is writ large in times when the question of “social justice”, riding on renewed demands for a caste census, has resurfaced. Mayawati’s party has neither been able to frame a fresh narrative of inclusive........

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