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The BJP wants to introduce a new Mother Language Day in West Bengal, India, instead of February 21. The holiday celebrates on September 20, that is, today, as ‘Mother tongue Day’ in West Bengal. The party leadership is also running a strong campaign on social media for this. They claim that two years ago, on the same day, two BJP workers were killed when police opened fire on a crowd protesting the appointment of an Urdu teacher at a school in the Uttar Dinajpur district. In his memory, this day is remembered as Mother Language Day.
However, many writers and linguists in the state do not agree with the BJP’s argument that the Bengali language is in danger in West Bengal due to the influence of Urdu or Arabic. The ruling Trinamool Congress also believes that the importance of a new day instead of International Language Day on February 21 is nothing more than an attempt to distort history.
In fact, in commemoration of the martyrs of the Bahannar language movement in East Pakistan, the United Nations has recognized February 21 as International Mother Language Day. Apart from this, a series of ceremonies are held in West Bengal on May 19 each year in memory of the martyrs of the Barak Valley language in 71.
However, BJP State President Dilip Ghosh has been campaigning on Facebook and social media for the past few days for Mother Language Day to be celebrated on September 20. As one reason, he says, two supporters of the Darivit BJP, Tapash Barman and Rajesh Sarkar, were shot dead by police on the same day in protest of Urdu aggression in the state. According to West Bengal BJP chief spokesman and general secretary Sayantan Basu, leftists and congressmen have declared February 21 as Mother Language Day in the state. That was the case in Bangladesh, this state had nothing to do with it. Although we do not deny on February 21, the recent incident of the sacrifice of Rajesh-Tapas in Darivit against the imposition of Urdu in the state demands more attention from us.
The fact that water is used instead of water, rainbow instead of rainbow, sky instead of sky or fupi instead of PC is happening today in West Bengal, it is understood that the Bengali language is affected! Our initiative is to raise awareness against this domination of Urdu and Arabic during the Trinamool era, said Sayantan Basu.
However, Jaya Mitra, a well-known Bengali writer, believes that no Mother Language Day can be celebrated by attacking any other language. Your question is, if it is called Mother Language Day, what will happen to those whose mother tongue is Urdu in this state? Or those whose mother tongue is Tamil or Hindi, what will happen to them? She said that in fact celebrating Mother Language Day does not mean hating any other language.
Your next question is, is the native language in danger in West Bengal? In response, the mother tongue may not be that much, but the Bengali language is definitely in danger in West Bengal, especially in urban areas. A language survives from its movements, from the actions that revolve around it. Language is not an absolute thing that I boxed and took out and used however I wanted. And it is in this place that I will say that the intimate lifestyle with the Bengali language has been seriously hurt and attacked in recent times. The veteran writer further said that it is the responsibility of the BJP to impose the non-Bengali culture of the Hindi belt in West Bengal. He also recalled that a Sanskrit teacher got a job together with Urdu at a school in Uttar Dinajpur where the police opened fire in protest against the recruitment of teachers. And Trinamool Congress senior deputy and state spokesman Kakli Ghoshdastidar says celebrating Mother Language Day on a new date is actually part of an old BJP strategy. In his words, the way the BJP has entered the game of changing history is also an attempt. They are even naming social projects in the name of Gandhi after people who follow their own ideology. The same goes for the launch of Language Day.
Kakli Ghoshdastidar claimed that none of the top leaders of the BJP, a party in the Hindi belt, was Bengali and that the party had no spiritual connection to Bengal. He said they came to Bengal and left with speeches in Hindi or Gujarati; the people of West Bengal didn’t like it at all. Why not reach the hearts of the people with their language, customs, rituals that they have not yet learned. So half the people don’t understand your speech.
But because they have a lot of money, they have been able to dish out a lot of money in the Lok Sabha elections. And now Bengalis are trying to stimulate emotions to find ground under their feet in the state, said the Trinamool deputy.
Citing the founder of Jana Sangh, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, the BJP is eager to launch a new Mother Language Day in West Bengal in memory of the ‘Martyrs of Language’ of Dinajpur, but it remains a great challenge for them to establish the notion of that the BJP is not just a Hindi-speaking party in the state.
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