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Uttar Pradesh cabinet decides to divide state into four
Tuesday November 15, 2011 03:34:51 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: In a move
that Chief Minister Mayawati said was inspired by B.R. Ambedkar,
the Uttar Pradesh cabinet Tuesday decided to divide the state into
four: Purvanchal, Pashcim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Awadh Pradesh.
While Mayawati had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the
issue, her cabinet took a formal decision to take it up as a
resolution in the state assembly during the winter session
beginning Nov 21.
"We will get a resolution passed by the assembly to divide the
state into four smaller states during the coming winter session to
be opened on Nov 21," Mayawati said at a press conference here.
After the resolution was passed by the assembly, it would be sent
to the central government that would be required to table it
before parliament where it would have to be passed, Mayawati said.
Claiming that the move was inspired by her ideologue Ambedkar's
philosophy of building smaller units of governance for better law
and order and to ensure uniform development, she said: "We propose
to reorganise Uttar Pradesh into the states of Purvanchal (East
Uttar Pradesh), Pashchim Pradesh (West Uttar Pradesh), Bundelkhand
(South Uttar Pradesh) and Awadh Pradesh (Central Uttar Pradesh)."
Explaining the rationale behind the move, she added: "As we all
know, UP is the country's most populous state with the population
shooting up to nearly 20 crore, which means that 16 percent of the
country's population lives. It also has a gigantic area of 240,000
sq km and that is what makes it unwieldy."
Only a division can solve the problems and remove the inherent
imbalances, the chief minister said.
"The move would fulfil the much-awaited aspirations of the people
living in each of the regions that have suffered on account of
neglect and apathy of successive governments - either led by the
Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)."
Accusing national governments of apathy towards her state,
Mayawati said: "Even though UP had given the maximum number of
prime ministers to the country, none cared to do something
concrete for appropriate development of the state."
She claimed that hers was the only government that had shown
sincere interest in comprehensive development.
"Soon after we came to power on our own strength in 2007, I not
only wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a special
economic package of Rs.80,000 crore for the development of the
backward regions of Purvanchal and Bundelkhand but also met him
personally - to no avail."
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