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dated March 8, 1956: Nehru confers with Vinoba

Prime Minister Nehru visited Acharya Vinoba Bhave's camp at Madhavaraopalli on March 6 and returned to Hyderabad in the night. He reached Madhavaraopalli at about 4 p.m. and was with Acharya Vinoba Bhave for about 90 minutes. The talks covered a wide range of subjects like States reorganisation, Second Five-Year Plan and Sarvodaya. Acharya Bhave is believed to have drawn the attention of the Prime Minister to the strong feeling among a large section of Maharashtrians that they should be allowed to use the Centrally-administered Bombay City as their capital pending settlement of their claim to it by a suitable democratic method. On his way back to Jadcherla, addressing the villagers at Madhavaraopalli, the Prime Minister appealed to them to end the controversy over the future of Telengana. Now that Andhra and Telengana would be merged to form Visalandhra they should work unitedly for the welfare of the State and the country as a whole. They were all Indians first, although inhabiting different parts of the country. Reorganisation of States was not sought to be done to divide the people into watertight compartments. It was only a measure of administrative convenience. The Prime Minister said he was happy that the villagers had an opportunity to listen to the message of Bhoodan conveyed to them by Acharya Vinoba Bhave. This message was making a signal contribution to the solution of the land problem in India.

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