During the Language Movement in 1952, I was not a member of the Communist Party. I was a member of Youth League, and as a member of the organisation I worked in close collaboration with the Communist Party.
On the night of February 20, Zahedul Huq, Shelley, Gazi, Sultan, Mansur of Naogaon and I sat by the pond of Fazlul Haque Hall to discuss what can be done the next day.
On January 27, 1952, Khwaja Nazimuddin, addressing an open session of the Muslim League Council, said only Urdu would be the state language of Pakistan.
A meeting of the [Muslim League] parliamentary party was going on in the assembly hall on February 21, 1952, and I heard the gunshot during that meeting.