She comes from a well connected political family as her mother's cousin Madhuri Singh was a member of parliament in 1980's from Congress party.

Anand has also twice been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Bihar, winning once in Barh and again in Nabinagar.

[4][8] He had twice been the MP for Sheohar, in 1996 and 1998, and his wife stood as a Samajwadi Party candidate there in the 2014 general election.

[12] In 2015, Anand became involved with the Hindustani Awam Morcha party and contested from Sheohar constituency.

[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.