"I will go to Mumbai to celebrate Chhath and I dare Raj Thackeray to prevent me from doing so if he has guts," the firebrand former BJP leader announced in a press conference.

"In order to ensure his existence and gain cheap publicity Thackeray is making such baseless statements which is not in the interest of the nation," she said.

On the general and state budget for 2008-09, she said both are ‘directionless’.

Earlier, addressing party workers in the town on Friday she alleged that corruption, terrorism and Naxalism is surviving in the country due to Congress party's policies, while BJP has forgotten the core issues of Hindutva and Article 370 for the sake of power.

She alleged that BJP leaders in Madhya Pradesh are involved neck-deep in corruption as now they have a feeling they will not come back to power again.