Quotes from Mayawati

Despite its size and its long porous border with Nepal and increasing Naxal problems, U.P. had not been treated at par with the Congress-rules states like Delhi and Maharashtra in terms of funding for police modernisation.

Congress has no vision for U.P. They want to milk U.P. for those 80 parliamentary seats.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.

Congress Yuvraj Rahul Gandhi's visit to houses of poor sharing food with them or night stays will not alleviate poverty. Nor can poverty be tackled by implementation of rural employment scheme.

In 2007 elections, people voted for us in the hope that we would get rid of Goonda Raj, as the criminals of SP had made life difficult for them.

If the leaders of backward castes had done something for the community, then there would have been no need for the BSP. They didn't, so we exist.

When you walk into anybody's house with footwear, you tend to bring in germs and bacteria.

It is the BSP that will get Brahmin votes. In fact we will get votes of all communities.

The Electronic Voting Machines were tampered with in every election since 2014 to defeat the BSP.

For the Gandhi family, U.P. elections have always been a big picnic.

Our party is not against any caste or religion. Our party is not caste or religion specific. We want to make a society based on equality.

The BJP members and their leadership have realized that the Bahujan Samaj Party's policies are not anti-upper caste.

My aim is to have a Bahujan Samaj government at the Centre, which was also the dream of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar.

I want to make it clear that BSP will not extend any kind of support to Modi or NDA to form the government at any cost.

Respected Kanshi Ramji has supported my rise in politics right from the beginning.

If I can become U.P. chief minister, then I think a day will surely come when the dreams of our people will come true.

Muslims have realized that a vote for the SP means wasting their vote.

We cannot fight just as Dalits. I understand for centuries people have fought each other. It is not easy to bring them together. But we have done this in U.P.

When the BSP was in power, there were no communal riots.

Politics being done by BJP and Congress by leveling accusations at each other over India-China border issue is not in the interest of the nation. It is a matter of great concern.

When the BSP comes to power, modern hospitals and community centers will be constructed especially in the name of Parshuram - considered the symbol and pride of the Brahmin community- as well as an icon of other religions and castes.

Our party's symbol is the elephant, and its weight, size and strength symbolize Uttar Pradesh.

You see, in a family everyone is not alike, someone may be a weakling. Now, as head of the family, it is natural for you to focus greater attention on the weaker member so that he can be brought at par with the others, isn't it? But that does not mean I am sidelining the others.

I knew that women politicians face a lot of problems in their lives, so, I dedicated my life for the weaker communities, stayed unmarried.