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- The West Bengal Legislative Assembly declared ‘Poila Baisakh’ as ‘Bangla Dibas’ or West Bengal Foundation Day.
- This is the first day of the Bengali calendar.
- It also passed a proposal of making Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jol’ (Bengal’s soil and Bengal’s water) the official song of West Bengal.
- Bengal existed as a (kingdom or) province for ages.
- On June 20, 1947, MLAs from West Bengal voted for the partition of Bengal, an event that was celebrated as Bengal Day.
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