We will trample opposition in polls: Maya

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday said her party would trample all rival forces in the polls while calling Congress so weak in the state that the Prince of the party (Rahul Gandhi) was rushing here repeatedly to enact "drama" leaving behind the crisis in New Delhi.

After the war or words and a Rahul Gandhi roadshow, it was time for Mayawati to flex her muscle and she did with a massive rally at the Ramabai Ambedkar ground here to counter the Congress poster boy.

She said the symbols like hand (Congress), flower (BJP) and cycle (Samajwadi Party) would fall flat on their face in the elections as elephant (the symbol of her party BSP) will trample them all raising a dust storm.

Mayawati said Congress is spreading misinformation and by raising charges of corruption in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme they are acting as if it is the scheme of the Congress itself.

She said Congress is trying to divide the people in UP.

Crowds had gathered in large number to attend Mayawati´s rally for the Dalit in the state capital Lucknow on Sunday.

Dalit who constitute 21 percent of the electorate are considered the largest vote bank of Maya and she countered the Rahul effect on Sunday with high decibel speeches.

Earlier on Saturday, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said Uttar Pradesh would be brought back to the path of development in the next five years if his party was voted to power in the upcoming assembly elections.

The Gandhi scion said he is ready to sign a statement with the comments he made regarding development of the North Indian state.

"If Congress comes to power, in the next five years, Uttar Pradesh will be brought back to the path of development. In the next ten years the state will transform in such a huge way that even the people of the state will not be able to recognize it," he said while addressing a gathering in Uttar Pradesh´s Maharajganj district on Saturday.

Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had snubbed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government over the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail sector issue.

"His upbringing, education has been done in foreign, so his lifestyle and thoughts are like foreigners. When he visits Uttar Pradesh he often comes with foreigner friends. During his visit, he shows his foreigner friends the slums and poverty and make a joke of it," she said.

The exchange of heated comments between Mayawati and Rahul Gandhi has become quite common in recent times with Uttar Pradesh going for the assembly elections in 2012.