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Akola Pact of 1947 was an agreement between the Congress leaders from Western Maharashtra and from then Central Provinces and Berar. It was for the creation of two sub-provinces of Mahavidarbha and Western Maharashtra. It envisaged two separate executive, legislation, judiciary and council of minister, but under a single Government.

It was signed by Barrister Ramrao Deshmukh and others on 8 August 1947.[1]

Earlier it was in 1918, a demand for a separate Marathi-speaking state was made by a petition during the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms. It was persuaded in three regions of Bombay State, Vidarbha and Marathwada. In 1940, Mahavidarbha Samiti under leadership of M. S. Aney, suggested a Marathi speaking State consisting of four districts from Vidarbha ( Amravati, Akola, Yavatmal, Buldhana) and four districts from Nagpur division ( Nagpur, Bhandara, Wardha and Chanda ) [2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/6166.pdf
  2. ^ S. N. Mishra; Anil Dutta Mishra; Sweta Mishra; U. C. Agarwal; Triloki Nath. Public governance and decentralisation: essays in honour of T.N Chaturvedi, Volume 1. p. 574. Retrieved 5 February 2010.

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