"The BSP and the BJP would contest the ensuing Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh jointly but not in other states,” Mayawati told reporters here.

She said that the objective of the party was to expand the base in other states and strengthen it to repeat the "Uttar Pradesh experiment".

"Uttar Pradesh is the test laboratory for the party for performing similar experiments in other states,” she said.
Blaming a section of press with a "manuwadi mentality" for the recent flare up with the Centre on the Taj corridor issue, Mayawati said, "The media not only distorted her statements but misquoted even the prime minister and the Deputy Prime Minister", adding these forces were against the continuance of the BSP-BJP coalition in UP.

Mayawati claimed that the BSP was a big force accounting for 85 per cent population "but 15 per cent manuwadi people were dominating over them in politics, bureaucracy and even business".

She said that BSP has attained the level of a national party and now even people from upper castes were attracted to the party.

Bureau Report