BSP chief Mayawati has termed a "pure election drama" the Congress' announcement to give 40 per cent of tickets to women in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, saying the party remembers women, Dalits and backwards only when out of power.

She alleged that Congress lacks the willpower to make concerted efforts for the welfare of women. Otherwise, she said, when it was in power it could have brought a law for 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and legislative assemblies.