Speakers at a discussion on Monday said Pakistan’s conspiracy against Bangla language and Bengali culture has not stopped yet which was started immediately after the partition in 1947. 

The discussants said people responded to the conspiracy by defeating Pakistanis in the Language Movement and the War of Liberation but the conspiracy of Pakistan and its followers continues.  

The discussion titled ‘Twenty-one to seventy-one: the Golden Jubilee of Independence and the Mujib Year’ was organised marking the Martyrs' Day and International Mother Language Day at Jatiya Press Club. 

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Voluntary organization Media Forum for Human Rights and Environmental Development (MHED) organized the discussion.

President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Omar Farooq was the chief discussant.

President of Dhaka Union of Journalists Quddus Afrad and President of Bangladesh-India Sampriti Parishad Freedom Fighter Professor Fazle Ali spoke as special guests with MHED's Advisor and President of Indian Media Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (IMCAB) Basudeb Dhar in the chair. 

Besides, NAP Secretary General Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan, General Secretary of Indian Media Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (IMCAB) Masum Billah, Treasurer Aminul Haque Bhuiyan, Executive Director of MHED Rafiqul Islam Sabuj were present. 

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The speakers said Pakistanis were trying to impose Urdu language in 1952 by saying that Urdu was the language of Muslims and Islam. 

But this is not true, even Urdu is not the provincial language in any province of Pakistan, they said. 

The speakers said Pakistanis determined the character of a language from their communal consciousness and thinking.