Can Smaller States Promise Better Governance?

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 17 November 2011, 03:14 IST   |    5 Comments
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On the other hand, UP's neighboring states such as Haryana and Uttarakhand have prospered after being separated and become part of smaller states. People in bigger states undeniably face this problem of the sense of alienation from the power centre. As Mayawati's move can very well be the make or break factor in the upcoming polls, her decisions has created a dilemma among the other players. BJP which had created three states during the NDA rule and that supports the demand for a separate Telengana states remains undecided. While Congress, unsure of the actual impact of the move, nothing should be decided in haste and fears that this can take the sheen off the proposed RLD-Congress alliance, Samajwadi Party, as always, opposes any division of the state. The power to create any new state is vested with the union government through parliamentary consent and the recent developments shows that the government acts only when people get violent, only time will tell how the map of Uttar Pradesh would look like in the future.