UP Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Saturday announced she had selected her successor and would reveal the name at an appropriate time. Mayawati told a party convention at Lucknow’s Rama Bai Ambedkar ground that her successor was much younger than her and was from a poor farmer’s family.

Mayawati, at a rally in October 2007, had introduced her brother Anand Kumar to the party and this led to rumours that he might become her successor in the party.
But in over hour-long speech, Mayawati made it clear that her successor would not be from her family. She also said that she had given her successor’s name to two confidants.

“I have chosen my successor but I won’t disclose the name. The person is 18 years younger to me and is a Dalit. The name will be disclosed only when I am dead. Apart from me only two other people know the name,” she said.

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