Obnews Desk: On Sunday, when Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Gautam reached Bahujan Samaj Party office in Lucknow for a meeting of senior officials of the party, he searched for a chair in the meeting room. Then an employee told Gautam that party chief Mayawati has instructed that the MP should be asked to sit on one of the five chairs placed on his right on the stage.
In the absence of Mayawati's nephew and national coordinator Akash Anand, Gautam was offered a seat next to the party's national general secretary SC Mishra, which led to the discussion about major organizational changes in the room. A few minutes later, the BSP chief made a blast that some people expected.
The former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh announced that Anand has been removed from the post of National Coordinator and now two leaders will take over the responsibility. He nominated Ramji Gautam and party vice -president Anand Kumar, his brother and Akash's father, as the new national coordinator.
Gautam was attracted to the ideologies of Dr. BR Ambedkar and BSP founder Kanshi Ram at a young age, left school as a higher secondary student in Lakhimpur and traveled to Lucknow and attended the public rallies of Kanshi Ram and Mayawati at Begum Hazrat Mahal Park. In his area, he also actively participated in the processions celebrating Ambedkar's birth anniversary.
Ramji Gautam joined the BSP in 1990 and became the president of the booth-level within three years. He later served as the party's sector-level president and general secretary of the assembly unit in Lakhimpur. He then left Lakhimpur to graduate in Chemical Engineering and completed his MBA in marketing and production.
Ramji Gautam initially worked as a guest teacher at a polytechnic institute and later joined the Reliance Group. His work also took him to Punjab, where he started working for BSP in Mansa district. By 2011, he was fed up and resigned from his job in the telecom sector to join politics full -time.
Gautam got a chance to meet Mayawati for the first time in 2014. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed party in -charge for the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, but within a year, he was awarded as in -charge of Pavayan assembly seat in Shahjahanpur district.
In 2016, he returned again after being appointed as in -charge of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala, he played this role for two years before he was transferred to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The same year, Mayawati removed Jai Prakash Singh from the post of National Vice President of the party, as he said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi could never aspire to become Prime Minister due to his mother's foreign origin. Gautam was brought in his place.
In 2019, Mayawati made her brother Anand Kumar the vice -president in place of Gautam and appointed him and Akash Anand as the national coordinator. In 2022, Gautam was appointed as the Central Coordinator of the BSP, making him in charge of Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand. In 2018, when the BSP won six seats in the Rajasthan assembly elections, Gautam was the state in -charge of the party.
However, soon after this the party suffered a shock as all six went into Congress and in 2023 the number of party seats decreased to two. In 2020, the BSP also won an assembly seat in Bihar, another state where Gautam was in charge. In 2020, the party nominated Gautam for the Rajya Sabha. He is currently the only MP of the party.
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Gautam is not the only new face in the top leadership of BSP. On Sunday, Mayawati also appointed the party's central coordinator and former MP 56 -year -old Rajaram as a leader in charge of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. These states were earlier responsible for Akash's father -in -law former MP Ashok Siddharth, who was expelled from BSP last month. Mayawati described the influence of Siddharth as the reason for the expulsion of the sky. Apart from these states, Rajaram also takes charge of Gujarat for the party.
