The Punjabi Suba Movement led by the ............... aimed at creation of a Punjabi-majority state ("subah") in the Punjab region of India in the 1950s.

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• When a war between India and Pakistan seemed imminent in 1965, .................., the President of the Akali Dal, refusing to suspend the agitation affirmed that “the country is dear but Punjabi Suba [state] is dearer.”
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