Three states of UP

The winter session of the Uttar Pradesh assembly will begin on November 21, and the BSP government is likely to introduce a resolution seeking the creation of three separate states. With assembly elections now round the corner, most political parties in the fray have been reiterating their demand for an administrative split in the country’s largest state. Nomenclature differs but the Congress and the BJP too have often sought a reorganisation of UP — and were Chief Minister Mayawati to pull off such a resolution, she would represent it as a sign of sincerity in setting the process rolling.

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