C.D. Deshmukh was in favour of the minority recommendation of K.M. Pannikar that UP be divided. Deshmukh has written: ‘It had no backers, and Govind Ballabh Pant rejected energetically even the relatively minor adjustment of transferring Lalitpur Tahsil, hanging like a thin pendant into Madhya Pradesh, to the latter state; “only over my dead body” he is reported to have said apropos of this.’ (Deshmukh 1974; p.224)
