Mayawati blamed the Samajwadi Party and the Congress for 'getting frivolous PILs filed' against construction projects undertaken by her.

Reacting to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's threat to get her statues demolished once he returns to power, Mayawati warned, 'if Mulayam ever dares to do that it will lead to country-wide protests and such breakdown of law and order that the whole nation may have to be put under President's rule.'

Defending her memorial and statue (including her own) building spree, she attacked the Congress for pushing the proposed multi-billion crore giant statue of Shivaji in the sea across Marine drive in Mumbai. 'Rarely has the Congress cared to name anything after anyone other than members of the Nehru-Gandhi family; even personalities like Rajendra Prasad, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and other prominent figures have been systematically ignored,' she pointed out.

Terming both Congress and the Samajwadi Party as 'anti-Dalit', she observed, 'by opposing my bid to raise memorials in the name of social reformers who championed the cause of Dalits, the two parties have shown their casteist approach.'

She sought to justify the construction of a giant memorial in Noida with statues of all Dalit icons including herself, by claiming, 'it was being done on popular demand of Dalits living in and around Delhi for whom it was not possible to come all the way to Lucknow to see the grand memorials I have built here.'

Mayawati also criticised Congress president Sonia Gandhi as well as her son Rahul Gandhi by terming their recent gesture to travel economy class as 'melodrama'.