Heartland surgery

Mayawati’s recent proposal to split Uttar Pradesh into four states revives an idea mooted on several occasions since Independence. In the 1956 report of the States Reorganisation Commission, K.M. Pannikar submitted a dissenting note, in which he suggested that the state of UP was too large to be properly governed and would command undue influence in the federation. Demands continued — in 1972, 14 MLAs moved a resolution for carving out three states; there have been demands for the creation of a Harit Pradesh in western UP and a movement for a separate state of Bundelkhand.

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