launching scathing attack on Congress and BJP, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday alleged that during the rule of Congress, BJP or any other Opposition party in the Centre and the States, the terrorist activities have been increasing in the country.

The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, addressing joint rally of BSP candidates from Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh parliamentary constituencies for 2014 general elections at Chandigarh Sector 25 rally ground, said that she holds the Congress party more responsible for this as most of the time, power remained in their hands, “and even today at the Centre and in many States”.

Maintaining that situation was no different in BJP-led NDA Government’s tenure at the Centre, she said: “The six-year rule of the BJP in the Centre was also not so good… similar conditions remained during other parties’ rule too.”

Accusing the Opposition parties for helping capitalists in the country, she said that all these parties used to come to power with their help, and after winning the elections with their help, they formulate most of the policies to provide benefit to these capitalists instead of the poor people”.

“If people want to get rid of these problems, don’t let Congress and BJP come in to power again,” she exhorted. Taking on the major political parties, including the Congress, BJP, on the issue of black money, she said, “There are millions or billions of rupees lying in the foreign banks as black money, and the country’s poverty can be abolished, to a great extent, if this black money is brought back.”

launching a frontal attack on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Mayawati said, “If people like Modi become India’s Prime Minister, it is likely that our country would face riots and may be destroyed.”

Also raising questions on the Congress, she said that this time, Congress, intentionally didn’t declare the name of its prime ministerial candidate, however, it is contesting for this post with ‘Yuvraj’ without declaring his name.

“We would have to stop both the parties to come in to power now. Congress didn’t do anything for people for the last 50 years since Independence,” added Mayawati. Not sparing UP’s former Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav while not naming him on the dais, she said during her four-time rule in the State as UP Chief Minister, “not a single communal riot between Hindus and Muslims took place”.

“If we come to power, our Government would take care of interests of all community of people,” she said, while reiterating that the party follow the rule of Sarv Jan Hitai, Sarv Jan Sukhdai. She said that the BSP would not only take steps to stop terrorist activities and naxalites attacks in which several people who had to lose their lives, but would also initiate efforts to secure our boundaries at the borders with our neighbouring countries.

Taking media and different political parties in to account, she said that people should not misguided by such parties which show their up swinging graph in the elections through media. “They should not be confused over manifestoes of different political parties, as most of the parties, do not fulfil their promises, not even 50 per cent of what they promise,” she added. Mayawati also raised question on the condition of migrated people from UP and Bihar. “The step-motherly treatment is given against those poor people, who had to leave their native places for the sake of jobs to earn daily bread and butter in the metropolitan cities. Similar is the case in Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh, which is not good at all,” she said.