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There may be a certain method in the madness of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati as she seeks a trifurcation of India's most populous state. Mayawati, who is harbouring ambitions of becoming the prime minister of the country, has goaded Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to follow up on his suggestion to partition Uttar Pradesh into three separate entities in order to facilitate better governance and development. But there is also a political face to this suggestion: trying to manage the state as a whole, home to one-sixth of Indians, is impossible and could contribute to Mayawati's eventual downfall.
The Congress would never get a permanent grip there either as history suggests. Ditto for Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. Enabling better individual control whilst confining their detractors to their own separate territories is the best way forward for all three contenders, thus literally stressing another form of "divide and rule".
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