LUCKNOW (AFP) - Best known as home to the Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh is gaining a new reputation as India's "failed state", with a series of rapes and killings fuelling calls for it to be brought under central government control.
After yet more grim headlines on Monday over another gang-rape and fatal shooting of two policemen, Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced he was "closely monitoring" the "prevailing law and order situation".
With senior members of his administration warning things could get worse unless deep-rooted social problems are tackled, the heat is on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
But in an interview with AFP, Mr Yadav insisted he would not be bowed by his critics and was determined to restore the good name of the state which has a population of some 200 million - the biggest in India.
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