Ghoora [घूरा] Division of UP: the argument and the politics! By Ratnakar Tripathy The most hurtful thing an opponent can do to a politician is to steal his ‘insincere’ slogan and make it its own. Even worse? To build up a good, indeed better argument in the favour of the slogan. This is what seems to have happened in Uttar Pradesh with Mayawati deciding to take measures to split the state into four parts – Poorvanchal, Paschim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Awadh. The BJP, the Congress, the Samajwadi party and Ajit Singh’s RLD are all stumped. Their bewildered responses highlighted...