Lucknow, Jan. 3: The plan this year is keep it simple.

Pomp can wait, at stake is a prize called power.

The Bahujan Samaj Party is gearing up for its biggest day of the year - party boss Mayawati's birthday on January 15 - but the celebrations are set to be relatively low key compared to earlier years.

The Uttar Pradesh polls are due in early 2017 and Mayawati, BSP sources said, has decided to minimise any display of opulence at a time she hopes to gain from the alleged failures of the BJP and the ruling Samajwadi Party.

"We have to alert the people to the communal BJP at the Centre and the anarchist Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh," Mayawati was quoted as saying by a party leader today. If things go according to schedule, the next government should be in place by March 15 next year.

The BSP boss, who reached Lucknow today from Delhi, has called a meeting of party coordinators tomorrow where she is expected to tell them how to celebrate her birthday at every district headquarters. On the agenda is distribution of fruits and blankets among the poor.

More important, the coordinators would be told to make it clear to voters that the BSP would not enter into any pre-poll tie-up.

The sources said Mayawati's next meeting might be on January 8 and 9, when she is expected to address leaders in charge of over 200 of the state's 403 Assembly segments.