Editing Language Movement Day (section)

==Effects==

===Constitutional reform===
On 7 May 1954, the constituent assembly resolved, with the [[Muslim League (Pakistan)|Muslim League]]'s support, to grant official status to Bengali. Bengali was recognised as the second official language of Pakistan on 29 February 1956, and article 214(1) of the [[Constitution of Pakistan]] was amended to provide that "The state language of Pakistan shall be Urdu and Bengali."

However, the military government formed by [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] made attempts to re-establish Urdu as the sole national language. On 6 January 1959, the military regime issued an official statement and reinstated the official stance of supporting the 1956 constitution's policy of two state languages.<ref name="lambert">{{cite journal |last=Lambert |first=Richard D. |title=Factors in Bengali Regionalism in Pakistan |journal=Far Eastern Survey |volume=28 |issue=4 |date=April 1959 |issn=0362-8949 |pages=49–58 |doi=10.2307/3024111 |jstor=3024111}}</ref>

===Independence of Bangladesh===
{{Main|Bangladesh Liberation War}}
Although the question of official languages was settled by 1956, the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of West Pakistan at the expense of East Pakistan. Despite forming the majority of the national population, the East Pakistani population continued to be under-represented in the civil and military services, and received a minority of state funding and other government help. This was mainly due to lack of [[democracy|representative government]] in the fledgling state. Mainly due to regional economic imbalances sectional divisions grew, and support for the Bengali ethnic nationalist Awami League, which invoked the [[Six point movement|6-point movement]] for greater provincial autonomy. One demand was that East Pakistan be called ''Bangladesh'' (Land/Country of Bengal), which subsequently led to the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref name=JSToldenburg/>