happen to be a Bengali? My Chief Minister is present today, sitting up quite silent and mum. He knows the real situation. But he does not venture and the members of the Eastern Bengal, my Muslim brethren, do not venture today to utter an expression in favor of the Bengali language. I know their feelings and I know the feelings of the people of Eastern Bengal. Whatever may be said, but they have been compelled to be silent today. Face the question bravely and courageously. The demand that Bengali should be one of the State languages of Pakistan is in the interest of Pakistan. For the interest of Pakistan and for the integrity of Pakistan, the Eastern wing and the Western wing should be connected and they can be connected if my friend from Western Pakistan start to learn Bengali and we learn Urdu
Shri Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya (East Bengal: General): Mr. President, I rise to support the resolution moved by Mr. Nur Ahmed and oppose the amendment which has been moved by Mr. Pirzada with trepidation.
The first cause of my trepidation in this debate is that when Mr. Nur Ahmed brought this resolution before this House the words uttered by him looked to me like some Mantras on a Sradh ceremony. I know that Mr. Nur Ahmed, even when he gets up without moving any Resolution, talks much and it is always difficult for the President to stop him within time, but what did he do today? He got up and read the resolution like Mantras on a Shradh ceremony without a word in support. I think really, he was gagged........
My second point is this that when there was an agitation in East-Bengal personally I do not know anything about that because I was absent from East Bengal at that time-the Chief Minister of East Bengal hurriedly went to the East Bengal Assembly and himself moved a Resolution supporting the Bengali Language and promising that he would see that it is accepted as one of the State languages or something like that.
The Honorable Mr. Nurul Amin (East Bengal: Muslim): Where did you get it from?
Shri Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya: Did you not support it?
The Honorable Mr. Nurul Amin: Why do you put in a Sentence which was not uttered by me?
Shri Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya: Did you move the Resolution or not?
The Honorable Mr. Nurul Amin: I said something else:
Shri Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya: What is the Resolution which you moved?
The Honorable Mr. Nurul Amin: You can read yourself.
Shri Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya: I was not there; I was not a Member of your Assembly. I did not get a copy but I saw it in newspaper.
The Honorable Mr. Nurul Amin: Then why do you quote me; why do you tread on the subject if you have not read the Resolution?
