Criticising Congress for yesterday's incident in which party MLA Pankaj Malik allegedly thrashed a district development officer belonging to Scheduled Caste in Muzaffarnagar, Mayawati said the MLA's attitude reflected the Congress' anti-Dalit "mindset".

She said the BSP would highlight the issue and book the MLA under SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act.

"Instead of protecting the Dalits, Congress has been exploiting them for the past 60 years," she said.

"I will change their (Congress party) mindset in Uttar Pradesh. I would not tolerate such behaviour and teach them a lesson if voted to power in other states," she said in Lucknow.

Mayawati said Congress had lost its ground in UP due to such incidents and would meet a similar fate in other parts of the country in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

"If a Congress MLA can beat up an officer, his behaviour can be understood," she said

Mayawati said after assuming power in the state, her government had issued three government orders to ensure that SC/ST Act was not misused.

She also accused opposition parties of spreading propaganda against her party.