Not only Telangana

Should Telangana be India's 29th state? My answer is two-fold. Telangana deserves statehood, but the process followed was wrong. Though the demand for Telangana is old, the government's decision appears to be electorally driven. Of the six largest states — Uttar Pradesh (80 seats), Maharashtra (48), Andhra Pradesh (42), West Bengal (42), Bihar (40) and Tamil Nadu (39) — the Congress party is politically significant only in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Indeed, with 33 seats won, Andhra was the single largest prize for the Congress in 2009. 

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