New Delhi: Congress on April 16 condemned UP Chief Minister Mayawati for resorting to "politics of reckless revenge" by slapping a plethora of cases against Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and warned that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not be able to shake off the responsibility for her actions.

"It is an extreme exercise of abuse of power, arrogance of office by Mayawati who is deriving her power from patronage of BJP, which will also be responsible directly for every executive excesses she indulges," party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.

He was also critical of Mayawati for ordering investigations into the alleged misuse of power by former UP Governor and Congress leader Motilal Vora. "This shows that she has no regard for either political decency or Constitutional provisions," he said.

PTI