The SP and BJP have a "tacit understanding to strengthen each other" and the two parties have also fielded candidates with this aim in mind, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said addressing election rallies in Muzaffarnagar and Meerut.
Citing the SP decision not to field candidate against BJP president Rajnath Singh from Ghaziabad as an example of the "understanding" between them, she said the SP was trying to "split the Muslim votes in order to help the BJP" and appealed to the minorities to "foil the SP gameplan."
She warned the Muslims against SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav, saying that he had "never been their well-wisher." Promising to formulate policies aimed at the welfare of all sections of society if voted to power at the Centre, she lashed out at the Congress for "using the minorities as mere vote bank" and claimed that non-implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations were indicative of its intentions.
The BSP chief said the Congress was "misleading" the people by claiming that Rs 72,000 crore meant for the upliftment of the Dalits has been misused by the BSP government.
"The funds have not been wasted by the 'elephant' (her party symbol) but by 'panja' (Congress symbol)," she said.
Charging the Congress with "misusing" the Central Bureau of Investigation to its political advantage, Mayawati said the anti-Sikh riot case and the Bofors case were its examples.
Terming the new pension scheme and promise of ration at a reasonable price as "election gimmicks" of her political rivals, she said the promise of bringing back black money stashed in foreign banks was also a "poll stunt".
"The BJP and Congress had been in power for a long time but did nothing in this regard and yet are out to make promises to gain political mileage at election time," she said.
 Meanwhile, the BSP issued a press release in Lucknow terming the United Progressive Alliance government's new pension scheme as a "political stunt". It had been brought to influence the remaining two phases of polling, knowing well that the first three phases of polling had "gone against" the Congress, Mayawati said adding that there are many "shortcomings in the pension scheme as it had been prepared in haste."
