This year marks the 73rd anniversary of the 1952 Language Movement. Drawing on research based on various published books, this 21-part series tells the story of the historic struggle for our mother tongue.

The second Shaheed Minar

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Jashore’s fight for mother tongue began in February 1948, and during the course of the language movement, it eventually became the home to the second Shaheed Minar after Rajshahi in February 1952.

According to Fakhre Alam’s book “Jashore Er Bhasha Andolon”, on February 28, just like in Dhaka, a “Rashtrabhasha Sangram Parishad”

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