The History of the Observance of Ekushe February : Part 2
Rally on 21.02.1954 by Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marching barefoot to pay their tributes. Source: Banagabandhu Foundation. From February 11 onwards, scattered processions and street meetings were organized at regular intervals. Workers of the Committee were busy pinning badges to passersby. The badges bore the slogan -- "Proclaim Bengali as a State Language"-- written in red letters. Every part of the town was covered with posters. The workers of the Committee used to write thousands of posters overnight. Amplifiers were an unknown in those days, so metal horns were used instead for publicity. 21st February : Innumberable processions began to converge at Aswinikumar Town Hall ground from early morning. Students of schools and colleges brought out processions, they chanted various slogans and joined the mass rally. Then the main procession began. The dominant slogans were "We demand Bengali as a state language", "Release pol...