Quotes from Mayawati

I have good relations with many BJP leaders.

What is needed is permanent jobs and the Centre has done everything to discriminate against the Dalits by not releasing funds for them.

No one should interfere in the religion of another.

I am not afraid of conspiracy, as it has always consolidated my votebank with a renewed resolve.

I want to tell BJP and Congress that BSP is not a toy for anyone. It's an independent party formed at the national level.

Mind you, if I were taking money for transfers, I would not have been able to even look the officials in the eye, not to speak of dealing with them with an iron hand, which I have been doing.

I don't just issue instructions. I follow up to see if they have been obeyed.

The bureaucrats tremble because they don't perform. In the past nobody checked their work. Now that I do it they are scared.

The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits.

Election can take place in U.P. anytime and I want BSP workers to pull up their socks.

Apart from being a chief minister, I am also the national president of my party. So I have to take care of the party in other states as well as in U.P.

I have been chief minister twice. In 1997 I was in office for six months, and during that period I did a lot of work, much more than what anybody can do in six years.

No one could stop me from becoming the chief minister of U.P.

I have no hassles handling U.P. For 57 years, the state has been ruled by non-BSP parties which is why it is so backward. In my first term as the chief minister, in four months I did the work of four years.

I have always ensured that law and order was maintained during my tenures as Chief Minister of the state.

BJP has traditionally been against backward communities and minorities.

I have done more for Muslims than Mulayam Singh Yadav has.

We don't agree with the notion of the government to remove governors. It is unconstitutional.

In every community there are poor and unemployed people.

Our party's economic policy will be people-oriented. But our government will neither give doles to the poor and unemployed, nor distribute saris. We will give permanent employment.

Delhi is the capital of the country. People from all over the country come here for work. If anyone falls ill and is being denied treatment because the person does not belong to Delhi and the Delhi government does not provide treatment, then it is very unfortunate.

I have come to know that in BJP married women get nervous when their husbands go near Modi, fearing that like him their husbands may also leave them.

I am not scared while I am in Uttar Pradesh. But after BSP got an absolute majority there and began making inroads in other states, the other parties got unhappy. That's why they keep telling me to stay in U.P. where I have my own Government and I can be safe.

When I will become prime minister, SC Mishra, Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Swami Prasad Maurya will be Union ministers with with important portfolios but the chief minister of UP will only be a Dalit who has dedicate his life for BSP.