As January 26, 1965 approached, the Anti हिंदी agitation in Tamil Nadu grew in numbers and urgency. The Tamil Nadu Students Anti हिंदी Agitation Council was formed in January as an umbrella student organisation to coordinate the Anti हिंदी efforts. The office beares of the council were student union leaders from all over Tamil Nadu including P. Seenivasan, K. Kalimuthu, Na. Kamarasan, Seyaprakasam, Ravichandran, Tiruppur. S. Duraiswamy, Sedapatti Muthaiah, Durai Murugan, K. Raja Mohammad, Navalavan, M. Natarajan and L. Ganesan. Explaining the anxiety of the students, "The Indian Express" noted in its editorial on 6 February 1965:
It was inevitable that the Madras students should have taken the lead in opposing the elevation of हिंदी. After all a decision whether हिंदी or इंग्रजी is to be the official language of the country affects them much more than any other section of the population. It is the students of the South who stand to lose most, when हिंदी alone becomes the official language.

Several student conferences (sponsored by industrialists like G. D. Naidu and Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar) were organised throughout the state to protest against हिंदी imposition.. On 17 January, The Madras State हिंदी-विरोधी Conference was convened in Trichy. Participants included Rajaji (Swatantara Party), V. R. Nedunchezhiyan (DMK), P. T. Rajan (Justice Party), G. D. Naidu, Karumuthu Thyagaraja Chettiar, S. P. Adithan (We Tamils Party) and Muhammad Ismail (Muslim League) In the Conference Rajaji declared that the Part XVII of the Constitution should "be heaved and thrown into the Arabian Sea." On 16 January, Annadurai announced that 26 January (also the Republic Day of India) would be observed as a day of mourning. He wrote to Shastri asking for the language transition to be postponed by a week so that Tamils could celebrate Republic Day with the rest of the country. Shastri refused and the stage was set for the confrontation.

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