At a state-level rally of the party, organised to focus the government's attention on reservation in the private sector and clearance of backlog in the reservations in government jobs, she threatened to withdraw support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre if they did not change their "attitude and policies towards the Dalits and did not fulfill the promises made for their welfare."
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The BSP chief pooh-poohed Lok Jan Shakti Party president and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan's stand in respect of a Muslim chief minister for Bihar and asked as to what he would do in the event of the non-availability of a Muslim amongst the elected candidates of his party.