(12 Dec 09 - RV) India's plan to carve a new state out of southern Andhra Pradesh
has sparked statehood demands in other parts of Asia's third largest economy in a
new challenge to the Congress party-led government. Placido Rebelo, a priest of the
Missionary Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, said the creation of a new state
will not solve the problem of poverty and could create further difficulties…