August 3, 2026 5:50 PM
Mapping the Jinx: A Chief-Ministerial History of Uttar Pradesh, 1951–2025
Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, with maximum legislative capacity in a single federal administrative territory - 80 Lok Sabha and 403 assembly seats - in its current demographical and geographical limits, is also the electoral and political capital of the country. However, the state also has had a history of its chief ministers not completing full five-year terms for decades during its long electoral history that began in 1951-52 when India saw the country’s first parliamentary...