On the internet, there is a message suggesting that Uttar Pradesh would be divided into three states. According to the report, the administration has proposed splitting Uttar Pradesh into three parts: Uttar Pradesh, Purvanchal, and Bundelkhand.
According to the viral message, Lucknow will be the capital of Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur would be the capital of Purvanchal, and Prayagraj would be the capital of the state of Bundelkhand. It even promises that the split would be finished before the Assembly elections next year. The viral message claims Poorvanchal would have 23 districts, while Bundelkhand and Uttar Pradesh would have 17 and 20 districts, respectively.
The Yogi Adityanath government, on the other hand, has denied proposing such a plan. The administration flatly denied the allegation and urged people not to believe such claims on social media platforms.
On Saturday, the Uttar Pradesh government’s media department emphasised that this is only a rumour and that no such plan to partition the state is in the works.
“News of division of the state is fake and holds no ground,” Sidharth Nath Singh, UP Cabinet minister and spokesperson, had said on Friday.
Notably, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had in January this year rejected mooting any plan to divide the state, saying his “government believes in uniting and not dividing”.
Earlier in 2011, then BSP government had passed a proposal to split the state into four parts – Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh Pradesh and Paschim Pradesh. Mayawati was the Chief Minister at that time.
