‘MAYA’POLITICS in Uttarpradesh

A day after Rahul initiated official campaign in uttar Pradesh targeting Mayawati in all his political style Mayawati slapped Congress political strategy by passing a resolution to create 4 states in uttar Pradesh leaving national parties, congress and BJP in shock.

Mayawati yesterday held a historical meeting with her party officials and declared that the BSP party is decided to pass a resolution to create 4 states in up and submit it to the central government.

Mayawati’s decision receiving applause from those who believe smaller states provide much better governance at the same time it also kept the BJP in dilemma even though it has created three states in the year 2000. Bharatia janata Party which virtually carries the small statehood concept and portrayed it as USP of the party in several occasions now calling Mayawati’s move as political as the elections are reaching close by.

This also created a huge trouble for congress party which promised Telangana a separate statehood with respect to the people’s passionate demand. Considering the current political situation in the country congress has no choice but to accept the peoples demand to crate 4 separate states and as Mayawati made her decision to lose her Chief Minister ship to the world’s sixth largest administrative body Uttar Pradesh. 

The demand to split Uttar Pradesh is not new to any political party and each party is well aware of the fact that UP is a tough state when it comes to governance but they are skeptical about the credit which goes to Mayawati who literally took the initiative to split the state. The congress central government and the lead opposition BJP are the only parties who influence the decision to divide the state as the division of the state is under central governments control.

In a state like Uttar Pradesh which is complex with several inequalities and differences in economical social and geographical aspects needs a division for better governance but what is the basis for division of state??  The initial congress governments created 14 states and then the BJP lead NDA alliance created 3 states but the basis for the division was always different.

The division of a state is a pure political decision but the undeniable fact but the every time the motive to divide the state was different. It was language base initially then governance and then its people passion. There was no government which opposed the creation of any separate state but they were cautious about the timing and the political beneficiaries. Even the states re organization committee lead by finance ministry have no particular formula but to follow the populist opinion.   

But this time Mayawati deciding to divide Uttarpradesh just before the elections is drawing attentions towards her motive to play national wide role because Mayawati will only be able govern in central Up where she has a strong hold on all communal and economical equations and in places like bundle khand there are regional elements which are already on strong hold. The interesting point in her political move is she is now concentrating to gather other communities into her political lap and she cleared it by giving 114 assembly seats to Brahmin candidates.

Mayawati has always expressed her concern to develop the Bundelkhand and Purvanchal regions and also spent 80000 crores for the development programs. The proposed uttar Pradesh division allows creating four different states Paschim Pradesh (22), awadh Pradesh(14), Bundel khand(7), Purvanchal(32) .

The separate state formula seems to be helpful for Bundelkhand and Purvanchal which are back warded in economical and social point of view and strengthens the generation next by creating several government jobs but ultimately it all depends on the governing parties.

It is interesting to see how congress high command deals with this division because when congress party decide to demerge the Telangana state which existed independently for 8 long years they asked the state assembly to pass a resolution and then they kept the issue in pending for two years from now but here the BSP lead Up assembly likely to pass the resolution first and then put the ball in centrals court.

It is very clear that congress party is depressed with mayawati’s move and they cannot take a decision to form a state without forming separate state Telangana.

The coming election campaign indirectly started after the Bhattapaursol till now dealt with farmers cast and governance issue but with Mayawati’s move now the political equation will completely change.

The elections will only decide how congress and BJP use their political genius but right now Mayawati is in lead and it is an undeniable fact. She addressed the crucial issue of governance and social inequalities in her own way by placing the statehood in front and she also put forward her interest to play a nationwide roll.