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This statement is quite wrong. Indians want us to remain in a make-believe world created by the Indian propaganda machine. This includes also the Language Movement.
During 1952 there was no one who shouted "Pakistan Murdabad" and the issue died out subsequently. It more died when the 1965 Constitution of Pakistan proclaimed "Bengali and Urdu shall be the State languages of Pakistan". No one heard anyone speaking against Urdu except people in the east were demanding Bengali to be made a State Language that meant that it should be the medium of education here.
Now, an Indian politician proclaiming this movement as the source of a separate Bangladesh. There was not even a Bangladesh Movement before the PA military crackdown and bullying in 1971. Why this idiot Pranab Mukherjee does not start a Language Movement in west Bengal to prove his stupid point?
Bangladesh became a separate country because of bickering between the then leaders of two wings and a geographical separation. Language movement had no function in 1971.
Bangladesh movement crystalised many different issues of marginalisation of bangalies by the west pakistanies.
You can say indians magnified the issues through their effort but the issues were not manufactured by them.
In india they recognised and accomodated linguistic, cultural, religious and other diversities from the start as it should have been in pakistan.
The later did not and the result is bangladesh. India would have balkanised too if it followed the Pakistan trajectory.
The marginalistion of the bengali polity started immediately from the birth of pakistan.
It does not serve history or future to deny this. Would i have liked the pakistan union to survive.... yes i would as i am a proponent of the Ummah and pan-islamic unity. But with hindsight do I believe that seperation was best for Bangladesh... 100 percent yes.
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