The Bengali Language Movement (Bangla Bhasha
Andolon) in Barak Valley was a protest against the decision of the
Government of Assam to make Assamese the only official language of the
state even though a significant proportion of the population
were Bengali speaking. In Barak Valley, the Bengali speaking population
constituted a majority. The main incident, in which 11 people were
killed by State police, took place on 19th May 1961, in Silchar Railway
Station.
A day after the killing by Assam Police i.e. on May
20, 1961, the citizens took out a huge procession (See picture below) in
the Main Roads of Silchar. BARAK GANA PARISHAD SALUTES THE BHASHA
SAHEEDS.
After the incident, the Assam government had to
withdraw the circular and Bengali was ultimately given official status
in Barak Valley.
Since then the 19th of May is remembered as the Bengali Language Martyr day in Barak Valley and other parts in India.
Eleven persons who were martyred on 19th May 1961:
Kanailal Niyogi
Chandicharan Sutradhar
Hitesh Biswas
Satyendra Deb
Kumud Ranjan Das
Sunil Sarkar
Tarani Debnath
Sachindra Chandra Pal
Birendra Sutradhar
Sukamal Purakayastha
Kamala Bhattacharya
BARAK GANA PARISHAD SALUTES THE HEROES!
This massacre is compared with the massacre in Jalianwala Bagh or the
one in Bangladesh on 21st February, 1952 when students demonstrating for
recognition of their language, Bengali, as one of the two national
languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka.
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