Maya, like most other greedy, corrupt, egotistical, power-hungry Pols in this stinking land (only more so), is a consumate opportunist - she's smelt the stench emanating from the halls of the useless, do-nothing Congi-led UPA (actually the fiefdom of the Nehru Clan, presided over by the Dowager Empress, Rajmata Sonia M-G) and decided to bolt while she still can, before she's smeared with the same filth. It's just her way of putting pressure on Cong to keep them from pressing charges of corruption against her - it might just work!