West Bengal Assembly passes resolution to change state's name

The proposal will now go to the Union Home Ministry for its approval.

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NEW DELHI: West Bengal Assembly has passed a resolution to change the state's name from West Bengal to 'Bangla' on Thursday. The name was tabled by the ruling Trinamool Congress government and was passed at the assembly.  There was no objection from Congress and CPM but BJP objected for the same. The resolution passed will now go to the Home Ministry, and on getting approval the state's name will change to 'Bangla' Chief Minister Mamata said that they have proposed three different names of the new name of West Bengal. But Central govt. refused the state's proposal. As per Telegraph’s report, The Union ministry of home affairs had sent back the state's earlier plan to change the name to "Bengal" in English, "Bangla" in Bengali 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.