From State To Union Territory, Tracing Delhi's History And Journey On Formation Day

Delhi History: The story of how Delhi became an Union Territory is quite interesting. Delhi, in fact, used to be a full state till 1956.

Elections to the Delhi Assembly were first held on March 27, 1952

New Delhi Formation Day: India, as it is today with 28 states and eight union territories, wasn't formed in a day. At the time India gained Independence from the British in 1947, the country was divided into 562 princely states. While most of the states acceded to India, it was in 1956 that the states were officially arranged on a linguistic basis as per the States Reorganization Act. On November 1, eight states were formed, though in different years, and Delhi, Chandigarh, Pondicherry,