New Delhi:BSP chief Mayawati has claimed that there was a conspiracy to eliminate her during her visit to the Shabbirpur village in Saharanpur district, which witnessed caste clashes earlier this year. 

Addressing a rally in Azamgarh, Mayawati claimed that according to reports she had received, the conspiracy behind the caste clashes in Saharanpur district was to get her eliminated.

The plan was that when Dalits will be harassed in large numbers, their leader will go there to wipe their tears, she said.

"BJP people thought that when I will go to Shabbirpur and speak in favour of the Dalit 'samaj' which will arouse passions and there will be a bloodbath, during which along with the Dalits, their leaders will also be eliminated," the former chief minister alleged.

Mayawati said that since she was not allowed to speak on this matter in Parliament, she resigned from the membership of RajyaSabha.

Reacting to the BSP chief's statement, UP BJP spokesman RakeshTripathi in Lucknow said, "Mayawati is making such statements as she is left with no issue to deliberate upon.

She is feeling frustrated. Most of the founder members of BSP have already left the party, and she is feeling isolated and lonely".

Tripathi claimed that Mayawati's "casteist politics" had badly failed and she was worried that the BJP government will start investigations into the cases of alleged corruption committed by her.

He said that it was a BJP MLA, BrahmaduttDwivedi, who had saved her life but she was singing a different tune today.

The BSP chief said that she would convert to Buddhism along with her supporters if the BJP did not change its attitude towards the backward sections. She also claimed that the atmosphere in the country was worse than the situation during the Emergency days.

She also accused the BJP of weakening constitutional institutions and the media to serve its political motives.