Our Language Movement: Moments, Momentum, Milieu
Our Bhasha Andolan—the Language Movement—was undoubtedly a major event in our political history.
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Our Bhasha Andolan—the Language Movement—was undoubtedly a major event in our political history.
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.
When I received the news of the shooting, I was in my office at the Provincial Secretariat. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon.
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.