Faced with open revolt in his cabinet, Shastri buckled down and made a broadcast through All India Radio on February 11. Expressing shock over the riots, he promised to honour Nehru's assurances. Further he made four assurances of his own:

Every state will have complete and unfettered freedom to continue to transact its own business in the language of its own choice, which may be the regional language or इंग्रजी. Communications between one State to another will either be in इंग्रजी or will be accompanied by authentic इंग्रजी translation. The non-हिंदी states will be free to correspond with the Central Government in इंग्रजी and no change will be made in this arrangement without the consent of the non-हिंदी States. In the transaction of business at the Central level, इंग्रजी will continue to be used.

Later he added a fifth assurance: The All India Civil Services examination would continue to be conducted in इंग्रजी rather than in हिंदी alone. 

His assurances calmed down the volatile situation. On 12 February, the students council postponed the agitation indefinitely and on 16 February, C. Subramaniam and O. V. Alagesan withrew their resignations. Sporadic acts of protests and violence continued to happen throughout February and early March. On 7 March, the administration withdrew all the cases filed against the student leaders and on 14 March, the हिंदी-विरोधी Agitation Council dropped the agitation.. Shastri's climbdown angered the pro-हिंदी activists in North India. Members of Jan Sangh went about the streets of New Delhi, blackening out इंग्रजी signs with tar.

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