International Mother Language Day celebrated in Tripura

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AGARTALA, February 21 2021: The International Mother Language Day was observed in Tripura Sunday amid colourful processions, functions, discussions and other events.

Students, people irrespective of their caste, clan and creed joined the celebrations. Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, senior minister Ratan Lal Nath and NC Debbarma graced the main function at premises of the Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhawan.

The dignitaries paid floral tribute at the makeshift replica of Shaheed Minar – Bangladesh’s national language martyr monument in Dhaka.

Speaking at the occasion Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said that in language movement of 1952, many Bangladeshi language activists sacrificed life in their struggle to get recognition of Bangla as a state language during the Pakistani rule.
 

“Mother language is the most important thing required for personal development. People of all communities should speak in their mother tongue and show respect to dialect of others”, Deb said.

Revenue Minister and veteran indigenous community leader Narendra Chandra Debbarma said that the people of eastern India and Bangladesh played leading role for introduction of the International Mother Language Day in 1999 by the UNESCO.

The Bangladesh Assistance High Commission in Agartala also organised programme to commemorate the day.