After Saifai, comes Mayawati with her lavish birthday celebration

The party has booked 23 trains from all over the country to transport party activists to Lucknow. The Government Railway Police (GRP) has sought the services of 10 companies of the Provincial Armed Constabulary for the event and to handle the influx of the rallyists.

GRP Inspector S.P. Sonkar said the requisition for additional forces for Jan 15 had been made.

Twelve people returning from a BSP rally were killed in a stampede in 2002 at the Charbagh railway station here.

The Jan 15 rally coincides with Mayawati's 57th birthday. All BSP MPs have been asked to 'gift' Rs.5 lakh each to the party kitty. Legislators need to cough up Rs.2 lakh each.

This money, the sources say, would be used by the party to promote Dalit movements.