 Thus, the first "Rastrabhasa Sangram Parishad" provided the organizational structure needed to launch the language movement in the latter part of 1947 and the early months of 1948.The first protest meeting was convened on the campus of Dhaka University on December 6, 1947, under the auspices of "Rastrabhasa Sangram Parishad", to protest the unilateral decision of the National Education Conference in Karachi to adopt Urdu as the only state language of Pakistan.The protest meeting attracted a large number of students, teachers and others from Dhaka University and other educational institutions.