Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Language Movement in 21, February, 1952, Recognized by UNESCO as World Wide Celebration (part:3)



The mother tongue


We are discussing about mother language, which is found in society and every country , where the Language carries on the culture of a country people, the culture and social aspect deeply related with mother tongue, to read first part Click Here  and to read second part Click Here
 Today we will try to discuss the next part of mother language movement.
Background of Mother Language Movement
1952 

Finally again "Dhaka University Rastrabhasa Sogngram Porishad" was formed with Abdul Matin as it's convaner, This committee arranged various little meetings and rallieand thus contributed to to keep alive the Language movement

In 31,January,1952, an all party Central Language Action was formed with Kazi Golam Mahbub as it's convener ,at the attempts of this committee various meetings and rallies were occurred on 4th February,after the procession of the 11th February the action committee called for protest on 21,February,including strikes and rallies, as preparation for demonstrations were underway,

In 20,February the Government posed Section 144 in the city Dhaka for one month, a meeting of the Central Language Action Committee was held on 20, February,opinion was divided as to whether or not to abide by the section of 144 in Dhaka city bu the Government, most decision was taken to violate section 144, according to this decision some small group started the procession, Thus started the famous Procession "The Language Movement" but the police interferences soon turned the peaceful situation in reddish situation and they started to fire the group to make them divided,

without any provocation on the student's part started beaten charge police fired tear gas shells towards the group of student, the students then started throwing brickbats at the police, finally police fired gun and killed a number of students, including Abdus salam, Rafiq uddin Ahmed,Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar,

  At the legislative assembly building,the session was about to begin hearing the news of the shooting, some members of the assembly including Maulana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish, Manoranjan Dhar, Shamsuddin Ahmed and Direndranath Datta went out and joined the student agitation,


the next day , 21. February was another day of public demonstration and police reprisals,Officers, clerks, different organization, Businessmen, Labour all boycott offices and join the procession,During the continued protests, police action led to the death of more people including that of a young man named Shafiur Rahman,

 

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