Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday the vow of the hallowed 21st February is to resist those who nurture the enemies of the Bangla vernacular, culture, heritage and who intend to restore that hostile ideology.
The minister told reporters after paying homage to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day at the Central Shaheed Minar earlier today.
AL Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Aminul Islam Amin was present.
Hasan said, "On this day in 1952, our predecessors including Salam, Barkat, Rafiq, Jabbar established the claim of our language by sacrificing their lives. And our struggle for freedom had started from there. On that day, the Pakistani ruler attacked our language, culture and heritage."
He said it is regrettably true that those who hold those subversive ideology and want to hurt the culture and language are operating within the Bangladeshi political spectrum even after 51 years of independence.
Hasan said, "BNP is politically in cahoots with the anti-liberation force Jamaat, the party which doesn't believe in our culture and language rather believes in the Pakistan ideology. For this, attacks were carried on our language-culture after independence and BNP was the main patron."
