non-committal stance. From the Bahujan Samaj Party, Mayawati have been vocal about their support. Rashtriya Lok Dal alleges that "Western UP contributes to a large chunk – nearly 72% – of the state's total income. In turn, what western UP gets is not enough. Just 18% of the state's budget is spent on developing west UP. This anomaly, understandably, makes the people of this area dissatisfied". There are allegations that in most years, funds allocated to west UP were never spent. According to Dal, only 18% of the state's budget is spent on developing west UP. The creation of three new states in 2000 (Jharkhand from the division of Bihar, Uttarakhand from the division of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh from the division of Madhya Pradesh) gave new impetus to the demand for Harit Pradesh. After coming to power in 2007, in the Bahujan Samaj Party government, Chief Minister Mayawati wrote letters to the prime minister regarding the partitioning of Uttar Pradesh into four different states, in 2007, March 2008, and December 2009. Finally on 15 November 2011, Mayawati's cabinet approved partitioning Uttar Pradesh into four different states (Harit Pradesh, Awadh Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Purvanchal) for better administration and governance. Notable people Politics Atal Bihari Vajpayee Chaudhary Charan Singh Kalyan Singh Mayawati Sanjeev Balyan Santosh Gangwar Ajit Singh Mahesh Sharma Shrikant Sharma Satya Pal Malik Robert Vadra Kumar Vishwas Manish Sisodia K.C. Tyagi Mahavir Tyagi Freedom fighters and kings Mahendra Pratap Dhan Singh Gurjar Kadam Singh Sah Mal Begum Samru Raza Ali Khan Spiritual leaders Swami Kalyandev Bharat Bhushan Swami Swarupanand Bhai Dharam Singh Entrepreneurs Sumit Jain Entertainment and media Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena Priyanka Chopra Sonu Nigam Nawazuddin Siddiqui Boney Kapoor Chitrangda Singh Disha Patani Vishal Bharadwaj Kailash Kher Mandakini Sushant Singh Mahima Chaudhry Rati Agnihotri Lara Dutta Zohra Sehgal Raza Murad Bharat Bhushan Sports Nishu Kumar Suresh Raina Piyush Chawla Bhuvneshwar Kumar Rahul Chaudhari Sumit Rathi Praveen Kumar Seema Punia Nitin Tomar Chandro Tomar Prakashi Tomar Saurabh Chaudhary Annu Rani Poonam Yadav Deepak Chahar Armed forces Major Asaram Tyagi Shashindra Pal Tyagi Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria See also Delhi Haryana Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Western Uttar Pradesh References External links Tribune India South Asia Anal Politics of Uttar Pradesh Proposed states and union territories of India