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Amethi now a district, named after Dalit leader Express News Service Posted: Jul 02, 2010 at 0156 hrs Lucknow Opening a new front of friction with the Congress, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh converted Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency Amethi into a district on Thursday and named it Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar. The new district is almost coterminus with Amethi constituency and includes parts of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli districts. The decision was taken at a meeting of the state Cabinet, chaired by the chief minister herself in which the Kanpur Dehat district was also renamed Ramabai Nagar. It is clear the Mayawati government has revived a seven-year-old issue to create problems for Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and to send out a clear message to the people of Amethi that the present regime cares about them. On May 21, 2003, the then Mayawati government had first issued the notification converting Amethi into a district. The subsequent government of Mulayam Singh had overturned that decision on November 13, 2003. Later, one Umashankar Pandey challenged Singh’s move in the Allahabad High Court. On March 6, 2010, the court asked the government to consider his request within three months. Pandey then presented his case before a high-level committee headed by the Chairman of the Revenue Board. According to an official statement, this committee recommended that the district status be restored because it fulfilled the parameters for the creation of a district. In view of the ongoing census, however, the state government had issued a notification stating no changes would be made in the administrative boundaries of any district, tehsil, block and village panchayat until the the census is completed. But the government said it created the new district to comply with the court order. It will convey this to the Registrar General of Census. It also claimed the decision would not affect census work. The headquarters of the new district will be Gauriganj. It will have an area of around 3,070 square kilometres and will consist five tehsils, 16 blocks and 17 police stations. Within hours of its decision, the government posted Jagdish Prasad as district magistrate and Sugreev Giri as the new superintendent of police. The government renamed Kanpur Dehat as Ramabai Nagar, because of the frequent confusion that arises from two districts with nearly similar names — Kanpur Dehat and Kanpur Nagar. It named Kanpur Dehat Ramabai Nagar to honour the memory of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s wife. ------------------------------------ ---- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/