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. The resolution “… was opposed by Liakat Ali, the Prime Minister of Pakistan and other non-Bengali members in the Assembly. FebruDirendra 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. (– Talukder Maniruzzaman) November 1947 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. 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. 1st Wave SeptemTamuddun 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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