PATNA: After supporting Mayawati's plan to split Uttar Pradesh into four, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declared Monday that there was no scope to divide Bihar further.
Nitish Kumar said that Bihar's size was ideal and there was no need to break it up any more.
"After Bihar's bifurcation 11 years ago, leading to the creation of Jharkhand, there is no scope to divide the state any more," Nitish Kumar told the media here.
He was asked about the demand for a separate state of Mithila, to be carved out of Bihar.
Nitish Kumar admitted that he had always supported the idea of smaller states. "Smaller states are good for governance and development."
Without taking names, the chief minister said there were several large states in India that could be bifurcated.