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She said as a befitting reply to the “casteist and anti-Dalit” propaganda, she would “definitely bring Akash into the movement and give him the opportunity to learn.” “I am Kanshi Ram’s ‘shishya’ and know how to give a befitting response. “He himself had offered to resign in order to save her from allegations of nepotism,” she added. Mayawati said that speculations about her and her family were triggered by BSP’s growing popularity and its recent alliance with the SP which were ‘giving sleepless nights to casteist, communal and anti-Dalit political parties’. LUCKNOW: Peeved at speculations of the possibility of her nephew Akash Anand being given a role in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), party chief Mayawati on Thursday said she would involve him in the BSP movement as a moonh tod jawab (befitting reply) to anti-BSP propaganda.Akash’s presence at various official meetings in Lucknow, including Mayawati’s birthday celebration on Sunday, had set rumour mills agog about Mayawati’s future plans for him. “Instead of fighting us politically, they are making baseless statements against us,” she said.Saying that while BSP leaders had responded befittingly to propaganda against the party time and again, she was forced to speak this time as her nephew was purposely dragged into controversy..