Staying with Sardar Patel, the Uttar Pradesh government is likely to declare a holiday on October 31 to mark his birth anniversary. A decision might be taken by the Samajwadi Party government soon in view of elections to the 403-member UP Assembly, due in 2017. After the decision, the number of official holidays in the state will stand at 39. The Akhilesh Yadav-led government had also declared holidays on the birth anniversaries of Maharishi Kashyap and Maharishi Nishad Raj (April 5), former prime minister Chandrashekhar (April 17), Hazrat Ajmeri Garib Nawaz Urs (April 26) and Maharana Pratap (May 9).
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