WB Assembly passes resolution for renaming the state to “Bangla”

NewsBharati    28-Jul-2018
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Kolkata, July 28: In a quest to attain priority in the sessions, the West Bengal Assembly has passed a resolution to change the state's name from West Bengal to 'Bangla'. The resolution passed in West Bengal Assembly will now go to the Home Ministry.

It has been noted that if Home Ministry gives a green signal then only, the name will be changed to 'Bangla'. The move is aimed at climbing the alphabetical sequence of state names in which West Bengal appears last in the list now.

Earlier, the Centre had rejected the state government's proposals of having three names Bangla (in Bengali), Bengal (in English) and Bangal (in Hindi). The Mamata Banerjee government's proposal of renaming West Bengal as "Paschim Bango" in 2011 was also turned down by the Centre.

The state will now have to wait for a nod from the Union home ministry for the resolution’s final approval. The move to change the name was passed earlier but the Centre did not pass the resolution and the dream of West Bengal to be renamed just remained as a dream for Mamta Banerjee.

Bengali is the fifth most-spoken language in the world, she said and referred to the International Mother Language Day. State Education Minister Partha Chatterjee moved the resolution in the House which was unanimously passed. BJP member Dilip Ghosh, who was present in the House, did not participate in the discussion.