International mother language day

21th February is the INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY OF THE WORLD.

In this day in 1952 numerous people of Bangladesh had to give their life for their own language. Former Pakistani government forcefully tried to abolish this language and pushed to learn Urdu, the another language. So people of Bangladesh came forward and began to protest it in a very peaceful manner but the nonsense Pakistani government killed a lot of people, specially the students of the University of Dhaka.

The friendly people of the neighbouring country India and Bangladeshis will observe the International Mother Language Day at zero point on Benapole border this year.

The enthusiastic people of both the countries also celebrated the day in a festive mood last year.

Several hundred Bangla-speaking people from both the countries embraced each other with deep emotion.

The day heralded with playing the national anthems of both the countries, singing Ekushey songs and releasing balloons in the sky.

Indian Lokshova member Amitav Nandi and Bangladesh lawmaker from Jessore-1 constituency Sheikh Afiluddin yesterday held a meeting in this regard.

They decided to observe the day at India-Bangladesh zero point at Benapole through a colourful programme.

Member of India-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Motiar Rahman set up a temporary Shaheed Minar at the point at his own cost.

This time the day will be observed with more grandeur at state level on the spot.