Chitradurga (Karnataka) (PTI): Continuing with her "social engineering" policy, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday promised reservation for poor among forward castes if her party was voted to power at the Centre.

Addressing an election rally here today, she said BSP would bring in a constitutional amendment for this purpose.

"Despite my party writing several letters to the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre in this regard, it has failed to act on the matter," she charged.

She said her government had also urged the Centre to include Dalit Christians and economically poor Muslims in the SC and ST category to provide them reservations but there was no progress.

In the Karnataka Assembly elections, BSP has fielded 28 Muslim candidates while only 12 members from the community were contesting elections representing Congress, she pointed out.

Accusing Congress and BJP of being responsible for the backwardness of members of SC and ST communities, Mayawati particularly charged the former with doing little for the upliftment of the poor in its five-decade rule in the country.