LUCKNOW: BSP supremo

blamed India's first PM

and Congress for the situation in J&K and reiterated her support to the abrogation of Article 370.

After being 'unanimously' re-elected the party's national president on Wednesday, Mayawati said she would 'never stop or bend, let alone break down' to any pressure and would keep the interest of party and the movement above everything else.

Mayawati used the occasion to target the grand old party keen to reclaim its lost turf in UP, and said that if Congress would have removed Article 370 when it was in power, the BJP would not have got the chance to score political points.

She also blamed Congress for ignoring the welfare of Dalits and backward classes, and preventing BSP ideologue BR Ambedkar from entering Parliament.

Mayawati again justified her support to the revocation of Article 370 by stating that party ideologue Ambedkar was against it. "He had always been a votary of equality, unity and integrity of the country and on this very basis, he was not at all in favour of separate provisions for

," she said.

Revealing deep cracks in Opposition ranks, Mayawati criticised Congress leader

for attempting to visit Kashmir last week. She said a visit without permission gave Centre and J&K governor an opportunity to play politics. "The root cause of the Kashmir problem are Congress and Pandit Nehru alone. Had Congress completed the work of ending Article 370 during its long rule, the condition in J&K today would have been much better and BJP would not have got the opportunity to play politics on this pretext."

Mayawati targeted the Congress in majority of her 90-minute address and accused it of disrespecting Ambedkar, not giving him ticket to contest general elections and denying him the Bharat Ratna. "The indifferent and non-positive attitude of Congress was also there for the poor, Dalits, Adivasis, backwards and religious minorities," she said.