Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party favoured division of the state into three parts, including a separate state of Bundelkhand.

“If the Centre agrees, the state government is ready to get a resolution adopted by the state vidhan sabha seeking division of Uttar Pradesh into three parts- Poorvanchal, districts of western region and the Bundelkhand region,” the BSP chief told reporters here on Tuesday.

“It is not within the authority of the state government to divide... only the Centre can do this,” she said.

Mayawati’s remarks came close on the heels of the demand by Congress to carve out a separate                          state of Bundelkhand.

A delegation led by Uttar Pradesh state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna-Joshi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week and demanded setting up of the Second States Reorganisation Commission for the purpose.

However, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has opposed any further division of the state.