PTI
 
New Delhi, Oct 16: Coming to terms with the death of her mentor and BSP founder Kanshi Ram, party chief Mayawati was back in her election mode today asserting that BSP would go it alone in the next year's Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

"If people of Uttar Pradesh want me to become Chief Minister, then I have to become the Chief Minister. Whatever formalities are to be done would be done at an appropriate time. No discussion has so far taken in this regard", she told reporters after performing the seventh-day rituals of late Kanshi Ram at her residence here.

The former U.P. Chief Minister said at this juncture, she herself and the entire party were in deep sorrow and could not think of anything else.

Expressing confidence of her party's victory, Mayawati said her party would be contesting the next Assembly polls on its own not only in U.P. But also in Uttaranchal and Punjab.

She said law and order would be the top priority of her government, if voted to power, as people in the state are reeling under fear and "no law exists in the state".

Asked about meagre compensation paid by the state government to the family members of those farmers which committed suicides in Bundelkhand, she said "if the state government was serious about farmers it would not have resorted to such an exercise".