Badda Residential High School students have paid homage to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement by cleaning up the Central Shaheed Minar and painting it with colourful murals and designs ahead of Amar Ekushey the International Mother Language Day.
The students also recited the Quran and performed special prayers for the heroes.
“We have offered this prayer for the salvation of our heroes, just as we do for our dead kin,” said the school’s Assistant Headmaster KM Zahid.
The school’s Founding Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Nurunnabi and the Headmaster Jahirul Islam Joy, including all the teachers and students, were present at this event.
More than 500 students, accompanied by their teachers, brought out a procession in Badda.
On February 21, 1952, students and the common people in Dhaka took to the streets in protest against the then-Pakistani government’s denial of Bangla as the national language and imposition of Urdu as the only official language of Pakistan.
Salam, Barkat, Rafiq, Jabbar and a few other brave sons of the soil were killed in police firings on this day in 1952 when students came out in a procession from the Dhaka University campus breaching section 144 to press home their demand for the recognition of Bangla as a state language of then Pakistan.
