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dated February 11, 1956: Congress modifies policy

The Congress Working Committee, in its draft resolution on the reorganisation of States, declared at Shaheednagar that "unilingual States might exist when this is considered desirable, but unilinguism cannot be made into a fetish, overriding other considerations. In the circumstances existing in India to-day and for the rapid development of various areas, it is desirable to encourage, wherever feasible, the formation of bilingual States with regional councils for each linguistic area." The resolution welcomed the proposal for the merger of Bihar and West Bengal and expressed the hope that "this new approach will be made to this complex problem in the South as well as in the other parts of India." The resolution said that "unilingual rigidity" would "tend to fix an unchanging pattern for the country, which may conform to a static condition, but is wholly out of place in a developing economy."

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