The provincial government became nervous and Nazimuddin under pressure of widespread agitation, the impending visit of the Governor-General, sought the help of Muhammad Ali Bogra to enter into negotiations with the Committee of Action. The Quaid-i-Azam was due to visit Dhaka from 19 March. " The situation grew worse in the days that followed. Students demonstrating for Bangla as state language is baton-charged and a large number of students are arrested in Dhaka. The East Pakistan Student League, founded in the first week of January by Mujibur Rahman, was in the forefront of the agitation." (- Hasan Zaheer)Ī Committee of Action of the students of Dhaka University, representing all shades of opinion - leftists, rightists, and centrists - is set up with the objective of achieving national status of Bengali. By the end of February 1948, the controversy had spilled over on the streets. Several members of the Provincial Assembly, including some ministers, were reportedly active in supporting the movement. "The demand for Bengali as one of the state language gathered the spontaneous support of the Bengali Civil Servants, academics, students, and various groups of middle class. The West Pakistanis were uncompromising to such a genuine demand of the majority Bengalis." (- Rafiqul Islam)
Dutta came up with a few amendments to the original resolution, and everytime these were opposed by the west Pakistanis and their Bengali stooges.
Regrettably, this was opposed by Khawaja Nazimuddin - hailing from the eastern wing - and a few other Bengali collaborators of the West Pakistanis in the Assembly. was opposed by Liakat Ali, the Prime Minister of Pakistan and other non-Bengali members in the Assembly. In Karachi, the representatives of East Bengal attending the Pakistan Educational Conference, called by the Minister of Education Fazlur Rahman, a Bengali, oppose Urdu as the only national language.ĭirendra Nath Dutta, a Bengali opposition member, moves a resolution in the first session of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly for recognizing Bengali as a state language along with Urdu and English. Supporters and sympathizers soon afterwards formed a political party, the Khilafate-Rabbani Party with Abul Hasim as the Chairman. The Secretary of the Majlis, at that time a Professor of Physics in Dhaka University, was the first person to convene a literary meeting to discuss the State Language issue in the Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall, a student residence of Dhaka University. Tamuddun Majlis (Cultural Society, an organization by scholars, writers and journalists oriented towards Islamic ideology) in a booklet titled State Language of Pakistan : Bengali or Urdu? demands Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan.
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