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Yes, it is:

Linguistic States were formed to provide the necessary impetus and encouragement to the regional languages and culture so that they could flower and develop to the maximum. This purpose has been fulfilled to an appreciable extent for poets and authors from regional languages have earned national and even international acclaim for their creativity.

In multilingual States there is more likelihood of the individual identity of languages and cultures being destroyed in the name of common language and culture.

Linguistic States ensure linguistic homogeneity and generate a sense of belonging among the people living therein. Moreover, they are a great success in other countries.

For example, the autonomous States of the erstwhile Soviet Union were all linguistic States. If they could work well in other countries, why should they fall in India?

The charge that linguistic states breed fissiparous tendencies because people pursue their regional interests to the detriment of national interest, unity and integrity, does not hold water, our experience goes to prove that whenever there is danger to our Unity and sovereignty we stand us one man to face the enemy as witnessed during Indo-park or Indo-China war, Pak-intrusion in Kargil and attack on our Parliament.

People leaders and officers are imbued with a sense of healthy competition in linguistic States to bring about all round development of their States vis-à-vis other states. It most likely increases the momentum of progress in the entire country. Multilingual States cannot claim this type of competitive Endeavour towards progress.

Indian states were reorganized on the basis of languages because there had been great demand in its favour even during British rule, and after we won our Independence, the momentum for the creation of such States picked up to such an extent that one Sri Ramalu even committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh in 1953 following which the first linguistic State came into being as Andhra Pradesh for the Telugu, speaking people and then following the recommendations of Justice Fazalurrahman Committee on the Reorganization of States on linguistic basis several other States were thus formed.

No, it is not:

Instead of developing and popularising our national language, Hindi, so as to bring about emotional integration and at a lower cost. What we witness today is just the opposite. No doubt considerable improvement and progress there is in the languages of different regions, yet it has cost us dearly in money terms. All this just in order not to injure the language sentiments of linguistic states.

Linguistic States have made us think in parochial terms rather than as Indians. Today there are Punjabis, Bengalis Madras’s, Sindhis, etc. but where are Indians? Thus linguistic States have robbed us of our national character as so aptly put by Moraes in Indian Express. “The Greatest minority in India are the Indians.”

The reorganization of States on the basis of language has created more problems than one could anticipate. It may have brought about regional development in certain States but has also affected adversely our unity and integrity to a great extent. The leaders of these states mostly think in terms of chauvinistic and regional interests rather than in the benefit of national interest.

The establishment of linguistic States has undermined national solidarity and the authority of the central government. Our real benefit as a nation lies in ensuring unity, integration and integrity through inculcating a feeling of common nationality, and not in continuing with such retrograde and fissiparous tendencies of cherishing independent lingual identities at this critical moment in our nation’s history.

Prior to the establishment of linguistic States we were not as divided and rent by a host of problems created by regional leadership for their narrow short sighted interests as we are today.

We should have only four regions – North, South, East, West to get rid of the multi-faceted problems we face today because of these linguistic States and make joint efforts for the common cause of nation’s well  being and progress.