Mayawati, BSP president, on Thursday exhorted party workers in Maharashtra to begin preparing for the coming Lok Sabha elections, saying the party should have become a power to reckon with in the state by now, reported PTI.

Mayawati who held a meeting of office bearers of Maharashtra unit in the ongoing series of state-wise reviews ahead of the next year's Lok Sabha elections, stressed on increasing the party's mass base, a statement issued by the BSP said.