Which of the following political party led the movement for the formation of Punjabi Suba?

Akali Dal

The correct answer is Option (3) → Akali Dal

The Akali Dal led the movement for the formation of Punjabi Suba.

The decade of the 1980s witnessed major developments in the State of Punjab. The social composition of the State changed first with Partition and later on after the carving out of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. While the rest of the country was reorganized on linguistic lines in the 1950s, Punjab had to wait till 1966 for the creation of a Punjabi-speaking State. The Akali Dal, which was formed in 1920 as the political wing of the Sikhs, had led the movement for the formation of a ‘Punjabi suba’. The Sikhs were now a majority in the truncated State of Punjab.