The former head of NOW’s New York state chapter claims Gov. Cuomo’s team made sure she was ousted after the women’s-rights group endorsed Cuomo’s Democratic rival in 2014.

Zenaida Mendez said Cuomo’s former campaign chair Joe Percoco — recently convicted in a pay-to-play corruption scam — was particularly upset that NOW that year backed Zephyr Teachout, who’s now running for state attorney general.

Mendez recalled intense meetings and phone calls with Percoco.

“They tried to intimidate me,” she charged.

She sought re-election to another two-year term but was defeated by Sonia Ossorio, a Cuomo ally who headed NOW’s New York City chapter.

NOW is so closely aligned with Cuomo that it endorsed him for re-election before Cynthia Nixon entered the race and could be interviewed.

Asked if Cuomo helped orchestrate her defeat, Mendez declared: “Oh, yes. I have no doubt about that. It was pretty obvious.”

Ossorio dismissed the accusations as ridiculous. “The entire premise is outlandish,” she said, adding, “The only people behind the election were the NOW members who voted that day.”

Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith called Mendez’s charge a conspiracy theory spun by the Nixon campaign and said, “Not the first Nixon to be paranoid — but maybe the first one to suggest women can’t make up their own minds.”