She also threatened to withdraw support to the UPA at the Centre anytime after January 15.

Mayawati hit back at the Congress as also the party-led coalition at the Centre at a press conference in Delhi in the wake of her recent criticism by some Congress leaders on issues including failure to avert the terrorist strike at Rampur.

"I am the Chief Minister of UP. Our intelligence department is not that weak," she snapped back when asked to elaborate on her statement alleging that certain Congress leaders were out to eliminate her and were "patronising" expelled BSP MP Atiq Ahmed whom she dubbed as "mafia".

Declining to specify the names of the Congress leaders, she merely said, "the details will be divulged at an appropriate time".

Accusing the Congress-led coalition of following the erstwhile BJP-led Government's path of "harassing and trying to get her involved in fake cases", she said she would convene a meeting of her party office bearers and legislators after January 15 "to take a final decision" on the issue of support to the Centre.

Noting that her party has 19 MPs in the Lok Sabha and seven in the Rajya Sabha, she alleged that the Congress-led government was "deliberately delaying" a decision by the CBI on the disproportionate assets case.

Mayawati said that despite the intelligence agencies of the Centre and Uttar Pradesh apprehending that certain forces were trying to assassinate her, the Centre has not sanctioned SPG cover for her as demanded by her government.

"I see a big conspiracy of the Congress party and seeing its attitude if anything untoward happens to me then the Congress will be solely responsible," she claimed adding that the weaker sections would never forgive the Congress in such an eventuality.

To a specific question whether she felt that Congress President Sonia Gandhi had sanctioned the attack by party leaders on her, Mayawati expressed ignorance recalling that Gandhi was in the hospital and was only discharged on Sunday and has been taking rest.

Mayawati predicted that since the Congress was following the path of BJP, it would meet worse fate than that of the Saffron party in the next Lok Sabha elections.

"The alarm bell for Congress has already rung in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh," she said.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said the Congress was blaming BSP for its poor performance in the recent Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls as her party had done well in both.

The Congress should blame its own weaknesses for its poll debacle, she said dismissing suggestions of BSP aligning with any other party in the series of state polls ahead as also in the Lok Sabha elections.

On the recent terror strike in her state, Mayawati put the blame squarely in the Centre's court reminding it that militants come from abroad and "not with any visa or passport".

It is the responsibility of the Centre to ensure that there was no infiltration and anti-national forces did not enter the country, Mayawati said.

"We should rise above party politics and fight terrorism as one," she said noting that there were terror strikes in Congress-ruled states like Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

"Whom will you hold responsible for this?" she posed a question sarcastically.

Mayawati was equally caustic about BJP's criticism of her government in the matter, telling the saffron party that its rule had witnessed terror attacks on Parliament and the

Red Fort.

Declaring that her party wants to become the "first front" at the Centre, she brushed aside queries on whether her party would become part of a non-Congress, non-BJP Third

Front.

Turning to the conspiracy to eliminate her, she said the "biggest proof" was that the CBI has not started proceedings against Atiq Ahmed, for his involvement in the murder of BSP leader Raju Pal.

The BSP supremo downplayed her party's failing to win the Ballia Lok Sabha seat arguing that there was a sympathy wave in favour of late former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, which helped his son win the polls.

She said that contrary to reports, her party's vote share has increased substantially in the constituency but the one of Congress and BJP has decreased drastically.