Protesters organized a 33-kilometre march, marking Independence Day, and also demanding the restoration of language martyr Dhirendranath Dutta’s house in Comilla.
Members of Oitijjhya Comilla, Shilpangan, Darpan Theatre, and Comilla Janantik, came together to take part in this demonstration organized on Tuesday.
The march started from Dhirendranath Dutta’s house on the west bank of the Dharmasagar pond.
Martyr Dhirendranath Dutta was at the frontier of establishing the Language Movement in 1952.
He was a member of the first Pakistan Constituent Assembly in 1947. Dutta was the first parliamentarian in the Constituent Assembly who, at great personal risk, demanded Bangla as the state language on February 25, 1948, in Karachi.
Cultural activists paid tribute to the Father of the Nation in front of his mural at the Shaheed Minar in the Townhall area, and proceeded to Kollapathor in Koshba.
Reaching Kollapathar, they paid tribute to the martyrs buried at the mass burial grounds there.
At the march, speakers from different organizations demanded the renovation of language hero Dhirendranath Dutta’s house and turning it into a liberation war museum.
