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Resolution to rename State as ‘Bangla’
July 28 , 2018
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- The West Bengal Assembly has passed a resolution to change the name of the State as ‘Bangla’ in three languages — Bengali, English, and Hindi.
- The name change will only become official when resolution gets approval from the Union Home Ministry and Parliament passes Bill.
- The proposal has been pending since August 2016, when the Assembly passed a resolution to change the name to ‘Bengal’ in English, ‘Bangla’ in Bengali and ‘Bangal’ in Hindi.
- The Centre, however, turned it down in 2017, objecting to having three names in three languages.
- The Mamata Banerjee government's move to rename West Bengal as 'Paschim Bango' in 2011 was also turned down by the Centre.
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