বঙ্গবন্ধুর ভাষণসমগ্র | ২০ এপ্রিল ১৯৫২ বরিশাল
ভাষা আন্দোলনের সংবাদ সম্মেলনে বঙ্গবন্ধু
২০ এপ্রিল ১৯৫২
বরিশাল
ভাষণটির অডিও না থাকায় শ্রোতাদের জন্য অডিও রেকর্ড করে দিয়েছেন সংগ্রামের নোটবুক এর একজন নাম প্রকাশে অনিচ্ছুক কণ্ঠযোদ্ধা।
শুরুতে অডিও ও নীচে টেক্সট দেয়া হল।
ভাষা আন্দোলনের সংবাদ সম্মেলনে বঙ্গবন্ধু
২০ এপ্রিল ১৯৫২
বরিশাল
It seems it is high time for all right thinking patriotic and democratic people to assess the series of attempts made by the ruling clique to mislead people and confuse the people over the State Language and other vital issues.
The tyranny of Muslim League Govt. has put to shame the worst tyrants of the world. People today need not be told how the Muslim League Govt. have, during these five years, perpetuated a reign of terror stifling all popular and democratic forces, adopting the most unscrupulous methods ever known in history. The peoples’ inherent rights of speech, association and movement, even the natural instinct of the hungry to demand food, have been totally denied. People simply wonder whether Democracy can at all survive in Pakistan with so many Safety Acts and Ordinances which serve as the safety of the Present ruling oligarchs.
Hundreds of Patriotic workers and leaders are being cast into prison for the simple reason that they voice the popular demands. I need not to say about my sufferings.
The demand for Bengali as one of the State Languages of Pakistan even after clear verdict of 45 million people, has been shelved under various shameless pretexts and excuses.
To mislead the people, thousands of leaflets in the name of Official Muslim League, are being published in Govt. Press and circulated through Govt. machineries to justify their atrocities launched afresh since the historical incidence of February 21. The cries of Islam and Pakistan being in danger are once more exploited, though in vain.
To terrorize the people, the workers and leaders of Awami League, Youth League and East Pakistan Muslim Students League and others who are connected with popular demands are being indiscriminately harassed and arrested. Even Muslim League M.L.A.’s who had resigned in protest of the February atrocities, have been goaled. And with these preparations perhaps the Muslim League Govt. is going to hold an election of the type they staged in the Punjab and Frontier.
I believe that the people of East Pakistan, though their suffering have by this time become conscious enough not to be deceived any more by the Muslim League black-mails. I appeal to all democratic forces of the country to unite and rise up to save Pakistan from the clutches of the oppressors. I have no doubt that victory is ours.
Reference:
Hasina, S. (2018) Secret Document of Intelligence Branch on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Vol – II, p 162-165, Sheikh Hasina, Hakkani Publishers
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