TopicUttar Pradesh

Topic: Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is India’s most populous state, sending 80 Members of Parliament to the Lok Sabha. The state is also known for being home to the largest number of Indian prime ministers. Leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Charan Singh, and Narendra Modi have all won general elections from this state, shaping the course of Indian politics on both national and international fronts.

The state came into existence in 1950 after the United Provinces were renamed Uttar Pradesh. In the year 2000, another state, Uttarakhand, was carved out of UP to give representation to the Himalayan regions in the state. Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, and the Allahabad High Court is the highest judicial body in the state.

BJP’S election machine is already at work in Gujarat

Ruhi Tewari - 18 April, 2017

Modi has decided to make Gujarat a key focus until the assembly polls later this year and will visit the state frequently with outreach programmes.

“Museum wahin banayenge!”

Rama Lakshmi - 4 April, 2017

All politics is symbolic, and the BJP is replacing realpolitik with symbolic politics, especially in Ayodhya, by trying to build a museum.

Writings on the UP Wall-II: Aspiration and desperation in UP’s East

Shekhar Gupta - 4 March, 2017

Eastern UP's people want out of their sub-Saharan trap. Politicians, including the PM, don't get it.

Writings on the Uttar Pradesh Wall-I

Shekhar Gupta - 25 February, 2017

Aspiration is turning into desperation. Nobody has much hope in an era of new Hindu Rate of Growth, and identity politics is back.

Coaching colonels in Bundelkhand, Einstein Public School in Lalganj

SGIN - 22 April, 2014

From coaching classes in Bundelkhand to 'international' schools in Lalganj, Uttar Pradesh is reflecting the upsurge in aspirations just like the rest of the country.

The Mulayam touch

Shekhar Gupta - 22 September, 2012

There is plenty wrong with Mulayam Yadav's politics, and a lot we will disagree or argue with, but that will not change the fascinating political player he is.

They just didn’t get it

Shekhar Gupta - 7 March, 2012

India has changed. It will vote for those who understand, respect and embrace this change with humility, not hubris.

Common maximum programme

SGIN - 28 April, 2007

You can see its emerging contours in UP rallies: Leaders moving away from cliche, voters moving to the centre — politics of aspiration slowly edging out politics of grievance.

The you in UP

SGIN - 21 April, 2007

Voters in India's largest state may be coming out of their trenches. Celebrate, unless you are the politician who built those trenches.

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Topic: Uttar Pradesh

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