  samyukta maharashtra movement (or samyukta maharashtra andolan) was spearheaded by samyukta maharashtra samiti, an organisation that demanded starting in 1956 for the creation of a separate marathi-speaking state out of the (then-bilingual) state of bombay in western india, with the city of bombay as its capital.dialogue with life - madhu dandavate - google books. books.google.com.ni. retrieved on 2013-07-29. similarly, in gujarat, in 1956 the mahagujarat movement started agitation for creation of separate gujarati-speaking state. ==history== the organisation was founded on february 6, 1956, under the leadership of keshavrao jedhe in pune. prominent activists of samyukta maharashtra samiti were patramaharshi dainik prabhatkar walchand kothari, acharya atre, prabodhankar thackeray, senapati bapat, bhai uddhavrao patil and shahir amarshaikh among others. acharya atre criticised jawaharlal nehru, morarji desai (then chief minister of mumbai) and s.k. patil through his firebrand editorials in maratha. the indian national congress had pledged to introduce linguistic states prior to independence. however after independence, nehru and sardar vallabhbhai patel were adamantly opposed to linguistic states. they perceived linguistic states as a threat to the integrity of india. for the first time and perhaps the only time, rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (rss) and its chief madhav sadashiv golwalkar supported nehru and patel against redrawing of the map along linguistic lines. the catalyst to the creation of a states re-organization commission was the fasting death of telugu nationalist potti sriramulu. in 1956, the src (states re-organisation committee) recommended creation of linguistic states of andhra pradesh, kerala and karnataka but recommended a bi-lingual state for maharashtra-gujarat,with mumbai as its capital but vidarbha outside maharashtra. further, they recommended the creation of vidharba state to unite the marathi-speaking people of former hyderabad state with marathi speaking areas of central provinces and berar state. this led to the creation of the predecessor movement sanyuka maharashtra parishad, inaugurated on november 1, 1956, causing a great political stir and, under the 
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