Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today lambasted both the Congress and BJP for misleading the people by branding her party as ''caste-based and anti-upper caste.''

Addressing Gujarat party workers' first mahasammelan at the Polo grounds here, she appealed to the people of the state not to be carried away by this false propaganda, spread by these parties only to take political mileage in elections.

''BSP is a sarvajan party and its policies and ideology are neither against any religion or caste in society,'' she said, adding that the parties trying to put this tag on BSP had joined hands with her during elections on a number of occasions only to serve their own interests.

Ms Mayawati announced that BSP would not enter into any alliance with other political parties in the coming Gujarat Assembly elections and field its candidates for all the 182 seats.

''We will fight the Gujarat elections on the Uttar Pradesh pattern by bringing all castes and communities together and if voted to power, BSP would strive to eradicate the problem of unemployment in the state,'' the BSP supremo said.

Referring to the reservation policy her party has implemented in the private sector in Uttar Pradesh, Ms Mayawati said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whom she had requested for its implementation at the national level, had rejected it, saying that it was impossible to do so.

BSP had also requested Dr Singh to bring an amendment to the constitution to provide job reservation to SC, ST, religious minorities and poor among the upper caste, but there was no response from the Prime Minister's office as yet, she said and asserted that the policy would be implemented at the national level when her party captures power at the centre.

The BSP supremo urged her party workers to launch a vigorous campaign in the state to remove the misgivings in the minds of the people that BSP was against upper castes. ''Initially, we had to face the same situation in Uttar Pradesh but later were able to win the confidence of the upper caste and as a result the party returned to power for the fourth time with an absolute majority,'' she said.

On the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, Ms Mayawati said the situation was worst when she took over the reins of the state, but now a large number of criminal elements had been brought to book and stringent action was being taken against them, irrespective of their affiliations.

Stating that her government had filled up all reservation quotas in government jobs within a few months after she became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, she alleged that the Congress-led UPA government was deliberately not filling up these posts earmarked for the SC, ST and other backward classes in order to appease other sections of society.