Maya rules out post-poll alliance with BJP-Sena

BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday ruled out a post-election pact with the Shiv Sena-BJP combine. ‘‘The BJP tried to fix me in the concocted case of Taj Corridor, so that question doesn’t arise,’’ she told reporters after over half-a-dozen rallies across Vidarbha, indicating the BSP is all set to engineer yet another coup. At the receiving end again — the Congress-NCP combine. Thanks to the BSP’s dent in the Dalit votebank, the Congress-NCP could win just one Lok Sabha seat in Vidarbha.

On Saturday, Mayawati said the Congress did not allow the backward classes’ quota to be completed. ‘‘When our government comes to power at the Centre, we will do that. I will not oppose quota even for the poor among Brahmins and Muslims,’’ she said. ‘‘In 1996, the BSP voters voted for their (Congress’) candidates but their votes never got transferred,’’ she said.