Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati said on Sunday that any proposal by the Centre to introduce reservation for Muslims in public sector jobs would be welcomed by her party.
"BSP will welcome a proposal for reservations for Muslims in government jobs if the Central government proposes it," Mayawati said at a public rally at Worli in central Mumbai.
On the third day of her tour in the state for the election campaign, Mayawati blasted Congress-NCP combine and the Shiv Sena-BJP combine for "failing to address the issue of development".
She alleged that all the previous governments in the state had failed to improve the condition of Dalits in the state and exhorted the voters to bring her party to power to bring about the change.
Mayawati said BSP had emerged as a big power in the state and expressed confidence that it will be the power of balance after this election.
"No government can come to power without our support," she said and added that BSP has carried on its march from Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra and the election results would produce surprising verdicts.