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New Delhi: First she made heavy inroads into Congress's vote banks in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh and now UP Chief Minister Mayawati is attacking the Congress.

In a scathing attack, Mayawati has charged the Congress of plotting to assassinate her.

In the Capital ahead of her grand birthday celebrations, Mayawati threatened to withdraw support to the Congress at the Centre if there were any attacks on her life.

Curiously, in the last two months, in the two major terror strikes in UP Mayawati and the UPA government were at war with each other over who should take responsibility.

“If anything happens to me ever, only Congress is to be blamed,” she told a press conference here.

Mayawati also accused the Congress of sheltering mafia don Atik Ahmed. She also alleged Congress was afraid of the BSP's “growing popularity” and, therefore, its leaders were trying to frame her in the income tax case besides doing everything else that could bring her party under political pressure.

"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 a "mafia" (don).

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

She said although the Central intelligence agencies know that her rivals were conspiring to kill her, the UPA government was not providing her SPG cover despite the State government's repeated requests in this regard.

(With PTI inputs)