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After the Centre turned down West Bengal governments initial proposal to change the name of the state from West Bengal to ‘Bengal’ in English and ‘Bangla’ in Bengali language; Mamata’s cabinet on 8th September decided to send another proposal for the same.
“After the central government turned down our request to change the name of West Bengal, in the cabinet meeting today it was decided to send them another proposal of changing the name to Bangla in all three languages - Bengali, Hindi and English,” state education minister Partha Chatterjee said.
The state government decided to rename the state as ‘Bengal’ after its earlier proposal of rechristening it as ‘Paschim Bango’, was 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.
