UPSC Prelims 2021 Question:

Consider the following statements

1. 21st February is declared to be the International Mother Language Day by UNICEF.
2. The demand that Bangla has to be one of the national languages was raised in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.
   
   

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Explanation:

• • The second Sunday in the month of May each year is celebrated as Mother’s Day. This day is celebrated and observed to commemorate the efforts of mothers and honor their value in our lives and in our society. So, statement 1 is not correct.
    
    
  • Language Movement began in 1948 and reached its climax on the killing of 21 February 1952, and ended in the adoption of Bangla as one of the state languages of Pakistan. 

• In February 1948 the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was in session at Karachi (the capital of Pakistan). It was proposed that the members would have to speak either in Urdu or in English at the Assembly. Dhirendranath Datta, a member of the East Pakistan Congress Party, moved an amendment motion to include Bangla as one of the languages of the Constituent Assembly. So, statement 2 is correct.
  
  

Therefore, option (2) is the correct answer.

Subject: Polity | Languages