Sir, it is very well saying that when the Constitution is made, then we will take up this issue. Even, Sir, only yesterday a resolution was brought in about Islamic research. Many resolutions every day are brought in, some are about elections, some about amending the Government of India Act. When these small things can be discussed in this House and passed, why cannot these major issues, when they arise, be discussed and passed to that here is no trouble in the country, so that we can live happily, so that there is no inferiority complex any where that people here are conspiring against them or people there are trying to dominate the people in West Pakistan. Sir, with these few words, these inadequate words, I am going to once again appeal to the people to be sensible, do not try to be emotional and do not try to put off these issues. Let us go and help the Bengali culture to grow and if necessary, if you think and I am sure the people in East Bengal and people in West Pakistan may agree that we may try to have a common script so that Urdu and Bengali languages can be understood and read easily by the people of West Pakistan and East Pakistan. Therefore, Sir, with this prayer that you should coolly and calmly consider this issue and settle at once as all and take up the issue of the script and let us see if we can have a common script. Let us have this Quranic script which is understood by both the people in East Bengal and people in West Pakistan. This may be the common script of the two languages. Therefore, Sir, with these words and with these suggestions, I appeal to the House for God's sake give up your ideas of Provincialism of which you are accusing your opposition and rise above the present level and see that you are the real Statesmen of Pakistan and that you are going to preside over its funeral.
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Mr. A.K. Fazlul Iluque (East Bengal: Muslim):[১] Sir, while I had been listening to this debate, I felt it my duty to put forward my views before the House. I do not claim to be orator. Nor can I claim to possess the vehemence of language with which my friend Mr. Shaukat Hyat Khan, can carry a motion before the House, but, Sir, I claim, through God's grace, to have had something of parliamentary experience. I have outlined three parliamentary generations in the whole of India and I know, Sir, what it is. When a question of the utmost importance to the State is being discussed, how people can play to the gallery and not look to the essential importance of the question itself. I do not for a moment impute to any of my friends here the charge that they do not realize the importance of the question itself. I do not for a moment impute to any of my friends, here the charge that they do not realize the importance of the motion, but I do say that they are not in a possession of all facts. Not only have I derived experience. Sir, of my thirty years either as a politician or as a member of the Bar. I am in close touch with the people from the mofussil who come to me on professional work. After my work is done, I just indulge in conversation with them to find out the real feelings of the people in connection with my burning question of the day. Now, Sir, I say it without any fear of contradiction that whatever the reasons may be, the feelings of the people of East Pakistan at the present moment are that Bengali should be at the least be given a place in the recognized State languages of Pakistan. Sir, I do not think there is any inhabitant of Eastern: Pakistan at present that can be expected to vote for Urdu only as the State language of Pakistan. It is not for me to say whether that feeling is well-founded or not. I am not saying that. Now,
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