West Bengal Assembly passes resolution to change state’s name to “Bangla”
Writes: Avijit Ghosal
The West Bengal Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday to change the state’s name to Bangla.
However, the change in name will only happen once the home ministry approves the resolution.
The move follows months of back-and-forth between the state and Centre over the proposal.
The Centre had earlier turned down the state government’s proposal to change the name of West Bengal to ‘Bengal’ in English and ‘Bangla’ in Bengali. The state government, led by chief minster Mamata Banerjee, then decided to send another proposal of changing the name to Bangla in all three languages – Bengali, Hindi and English, state education minister Partha Chatterjee had earlier said.
Incidentally, the state government had decided to rename the state as ‘Bengal’ after its earlier proposal of rechristening it as ‘Paschim Bango’, made in 2011 when the Trinamool Congress took office, failed to get the Centre’s approval.
The primary reason for changing the name of West Bengal is that whenever there is a meeting of all states, West Bengal figures at the bottom of the list which is prepared in alphabetical order.
[Via: HT, file pic]
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