Overview
- SBSP chief and Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said at a rally that the state will be divided into four parts and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had 'assured' him this could follow a completed caste census.
- Rajbhar made the remarks at a Deoria event on Sunday and tied the timetable to a two‑phase caste census that reporting says is expected to finish by February 2027.
- Reactions within the ruling alliance were split as Nishad Party leader Sanjay Nishad called Rajbhar's claim misleading while BJP figure Sanjeev Balyan welcomed the idea, and opposition leaders including Akhilesh Yadav rejected the proposal outright.
- No formal executive order or parliamentary bill has been introduced and Article 3 of the Constitution requires Parliament to pass a bill, after the President refers it to the state legislature for its view, before any boundary change can take effect.
- The proposal revives a long‑running debate that dates back to B.R. Ambedkar's ideas and a 2011 UP assembly resolution under Mayawati, and it could reshape regional administration, reservation politics, and electoral coalitions if it ever moved from rhetoric to law.