Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Das Gupta on 3 November 2014 resigned from the party with immediate effect.
The Rajya Sabha term of Akhilesh Das was about to end in November 2014.
- Akhilesh Das is the son of Banarsi Das, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
- Akhilesh Das was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1996 and 2002 by Indian National Congress party and then by the BSP in November 2008.
- Earlier in 1993, he was the mayor of Lucknow. From 1998 to 2004 he served on the Board of the All India Council for Technical Education.
- Today, he is the owner of several newspapers in Lucknow including Jansatta Express.
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