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When the Jubo (youth) League met at the Dhaka Her Library December 30-31 1951 for Its first annual conference more than 10.000 people had already died of starvation dur Ing the year in the district of Khulna and the famine was taking hundred* of lives daily
The conference opened with a report on the famine existing not only In Khulna, but In many other places in East
league s general secretary Ob Ahad In hK report to the conference, painted a grim picture of the prevailing socioeconomic-political situation In the province
The report identified the disastrous economic situation as the root cause of the poor state of education In East Bengal. The bankruptcy of the government s policy towards
From page 1 Col 8 education was exemplified by the two-month king province wide strike by 80,000 teachers of primary schools which ended June 2. 1951.
The teachers strike was not successful in terms of getting ail their demands fulfilled but. wrote Badruddin Umar in his three-volume "East Bengal's Language Movement." ibe strike was successful In the political sense.
This long, two-month strike heightened the political awareness of the primary teachers and sharpened their anti-government convictions." Umar concluded.
Amid famine, accelerating poverty, political repression against progressive forces and professional groups Hying to get a better deal through strike actions, the government was also pursuing a policy of destroying the Bengalee people s culture by Imposing Urdu and Arabic on a compulsory basts on school-children of the province, the Jubo league report said.
The League, which eventually played possibly the most prominent and militant role during the climatic month of February. 1952. was clearly approaching the task from a broad, socto-pofitical and economic angle, rather than a narrow linguistic one.
Umar also suggested that since OH Ahad was an active member of the East Pakistan Communist Party at the time, it would' have been natural for the party lo have had a hand in drafting the report, or at least In out lining i)k- areas of concern facing Ilic youth of the country.
By the Hmc February came, the Jubo League was at Ihe forefront of the University State Language Action Com mlttee. although Its influence at the All-Party State language Action Committee was somewhat limited due to the dominance of numerous other parties such as various student hall unions, the Tamuddun Majlis Island Bhat rec Sangha, other student groups and Ibe Awami league.
The Awami Muslim league's joint secretary. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In jail since Jan I. 1950. went on hunger strike from Feb 16 1952
Ar-cordlng lo Oli Ahad s
National Politic* 1945-75.' Mujib wa* transferred from Dhaka Medical College Hospital to Faridpur jail on Feb 15.
"We met him (Mujib) several times at Dhaka hospital by taking advantage of the police guards' deliberate slackness. He and another security prisoner. Mohtuddin Ahmed, told us they would start hungerstrike from the 16th ... While he was being transferred to Faridpur. he met two Jubo League leaders. Shamsuzzoha . and Shafi Hossain Khan at Narayanganj railway station and told them they would start their strike on the steamer boat at midnight on the 15th." Oli Ahad wrote.
According to Abdul Matin and Ahmed Rafiq's "The History and Significance of the Language Movement." Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasanl lodged an appeal with the government to release Mujib and Mohiuddin on "humanitarian grounds."