Mayawati moves to slice UP into four, stumps rivals

Chief minister Mayawati stumped her rivals on Tuesday by spelling out her gamelan to carve four smaller states from the "most populous and... administratively cumbersome Uttar Pradesh". Her Cabinet endorsed the decision to bring out a proposal in the winter session to split the state into four parts - Purvanchal, Paschim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Awadh Pran: a move which will diminish the political heft that the mammoth province enjoyed by virtue of being home to 80 Lok Sabha seats and render irrelevant the political adage that the road to Delhi passed through UP.

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