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| Uttar Pradesh Assembly passes resolution to divide state into four parts
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| INDIA
, 21-November-2011
2:32:3 AM |
| After much fireworks in the morning, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly reconvened at 12.20 pm today to pass by voice vote a controversial resolution that proposes to split the state into four states. Chief Minister Mayawati, who had announced the proposal last week, pushed the resolution in minutes by brute numbers drowning the loud protests of the Opposition.
Then, what was to have been a special two-day session of the Assembly, was swiftly adjourned sine-die; and Opposition parties were unable to corner Ms Mayawati on various issues as they had planned. Two no-confidence motions which they wanted to move against the Mayawati government lay completely sidelined.
Emerging from the Vidhan Sabha after having pushed her resolution, Ms Mayawati blamed the Opposition for the uproar in the House, countered the charge that her proposal to split the state was a political gimmick in an election-bound state, patted her government on the back for having done its bit on a long-standing demand and then put the ball neatly in the Centre's court.
Ms Mayawati said her move to split the state had absolutely nothing to do with the elections due in a few months in UP. Her government, she said, had brought up the matter of splitting India's most-populous state for better governance before too, in 2007, with the Centre, but to no avail.
The UP Vidhan Sabha passing the resolution today took the move to create four states - Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh Pradesh and Paschim Pradesh - a step forward, but there is still a long road ahead. Ultimately only the Centre can approve it and that through a long constitutional process.
But for Ms Mayawati, today's victory in the House means a win-win. She has given voice to a long-standing political demand from various quarters, knowing well that it will not be easy to get there soon. And in election-bound UP, the Opposition cannot be seen to oppose this move.
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