Constitution to be amended by upholding '52 spirit: Suranjit
Member of the Advisory Council of Awami League (AL) Suranjit Sen Gupta yesterday said the constitution will be amended by upholding the spirit of Language Movement and Liberation War for establishing a non-communal Bangladesh.
"We have to build up a progressive and liberal democratic country in line with the spirit of Language Movement of 1952," he told a discussion titled `The significance of the International Mother Language Day and contribution of language martyrs in our national life' in the auditorium of Jatiya Press Club here. Jatiya Juba Sangskritik Sangstha organised the event.
State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku, State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan and Lawmaker Rahmat Ali, among others, addressed the discussion with first vice president of the organisation Azahar Ali Sarker in the chair.
"The spirit of Amar Ekushey teaches us to remain together," Suranjit said, adding, language-based nationalism and non-communal spirit were created from the Language Movement.
Tuku said the Ekushey February bears the spirit of Bengali nationalism, secularism and non-communalism. Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said, had dreamt of building `Sonar Bangla' in the spirit of Amar Ekushey.
He urged the countrymen to be united with the spirit of great Ekushey February to implement the dream of Bangabandhu.
Paying rich tribute to all martyrs, who laid down their lives for mother tongue in 1952, Mannan said, "The Great Ekushey February is our pride as Bangladesh had been emerged an independent state in 1971 on the basis of spirit of Amar Ekushy."
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