From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1947: Seventy-five years ago: Bengal partition.

CALCUTTA -- Bengal is to be partitioned. Members of the Bengal Legislative Assembly representing non-Muslim majority areas decided by 58 votes to 21 today [June 20] that 'the province should be partitioned'. ...[T]he members of the non-Muslim majority areas also decided that 'the constitution of the separated province consisting of the non-Muslim majority areas should be framed in the existing Constituent Assembly'. All the 21 Muslim members voted against the motion.

[Meanwhile, it was also reported from Calcutta,] 'The agony is over. Independent Sovereign Bengal has been stabbed in the back and Bengal will soon be partitioned,' said Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy ... following the Bengal...

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