Shaheed Minar Collected
The language which ensures that the strength of the nation is not wasted, and the language which its citizens can easily learn, speak and write, should be the state language of a country.
This is the spirit that motivated the Bengali speaking people of the then East Pakistan demanding Bengali as state language.
The Language Movement was initiated in 1947 through establishment of Tamaddun Majlish (TM) on the 1st September the year. Organising literary meetings and seminars at different places, including the university campus, was among the many primary initiatives of TM.
These meetings used to take place at the University of Dhaka. To create public opinion, a book 'Pakistaner Rashtrobhasha Bangla Na Urdu?' was published demanding Bangla as state language.
TM had a meeting with the education minister Fazlur Rahman at
Nazira Bazar. There was a heated debate over the question of Bangla as a state
language. The minister treated the representatives of TM badly and that
infuriated them. They took an initiative to present a memorandum on the demand
of Bangla as a state language. They collected thousands of signatures in favour
of this demand and submitted the memorandum to the East Pakistan government. They
appealed to the government to immediately declare Bangla as the state language
and the medium of instruction in East Pakistan.
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