Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister SK Modi on Thursday held as "election stunt" the decision to divide Uttar Pradesh into four parts and said its propagator Mayawati was not serious about it. "It is nothing but an election stunt... has Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati been serious, she would have brought the resolution for bifurcation of UP four years ago," Modi said.
BJP was a votary of small states, but it should not be at the cost of financial self-reliance, the senior party leader said and rejected the demand for carving yet another state of Mithilanchal out of Bihar. "Bihar has already faced a division with a separate state of Jharkhand being carved out of it... now there is no need for yet another division," he said. PTI