In 2015, Anand became involved with the Hindustani Awam Morcha party and contested from Sheohar constituency. She lost the elections by a margin of around 400 votes.[13]
Anand has continued to protest the innocence of her husband, standing for election on that basis[4][9] and claiming that her husband is the victim of a political conspiracy and has never been a criminal or gang leader.[14] She and some others had been found guilty in the same case as that of her husband, which was determined in 2007 when she was a member of the JDU party, but she later obtained bail[15] and was acquitted on appeal to the High Court.[16][b]
Anand has a BA degree from Ranchi University. She and her husband have 2 sons and a daughter; her son, Chetan Anand, has also expressed a desire to be elected.[18]
^According to Arun Sinha, Lovely Anand was one of several wives of convicted criminals who were put forward for election by their husbands as a proxy in 2009 when courts rejected most of the husbands' appeals to stand in their own right. They were following a model adopted by Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife, Rabri Devi, but "got the greatest shock of their life when voters rejected their dummies".[10] She finished in fourth place with 81,479 votes.[11]
^Anand was a member of Janata Dal (United) between 2005-2007.[17]
^Donthi, Praveen (24 November 2010). "The godmothers of Bihar". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
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