SMA Kazmi
Tribune News Service
January 10, 2011
Uttarakhand is perhaps the only state in the country that has seen the decline of a regional political party since it came into being on November 9, 2000. Since the country attained Independence, and particularly in the past two decades, there has been a steady rise of the regional political forces with the rise of the regional and local aspirations and the failure of the national parties to meet these aspirations across the country. [more]