Kolkata, Feb 21: West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday greeted the people of Bangladesh to mark the Language Day and
remembered the martyred of Dhaka ( then capital of East Pakistan) in the
50s, who sacrificed their lives for recognition of their mother tongue of Bengali
language.
" Today is Bhasha Dibas, when people were martyred in
Dhaka for demanding that Bengali be made the official language. My highest respect to
the ‘language martyrs’ of Ekushe February ( February 21). We must respect and love all
languages," Ms Banerjee twitted.
In February 1952, the students in Dhaka while protesting
against the imposition of Urdu as the national language of Pakistan were gunned down.
These students became known as the Language Martyrs and their struggle is
commemorated in the Shahid Minar memorials that stand in Dhaka, The deaths provoked
widespread civil unrest.
After years of conflict, the Islamabad government relented and granted official status to the Bengali language in 1956.
In 1999, UNESCO declared 21 February as International Mother Language Day.
As the bell rang around 2400 hours scores of people assembled in front of Academy of Fine Arts in south Kolkata and joined a rally with burning torch to mark the Language day. UNI
After years of conflict, the Islamabad government relented and granted official status to the Bengali language in 1956.
In 1999, UNESCO declared 21 February as International Mother Language Day.
As the bell rang around 2400 hours scores of people assembled in front of Academy of Fine Arts in south Kolkata and joined a rally with burning torch to mark the Language day. UNI
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