West Bengal is now Paschim Banga (Second Lead)
August 19th, 2011 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) The West Bengal government, along with the opposition parties of the state, Friday unanimously decided to rename West Bengal as Paschim Banga, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
“It has been unanimously decided by the state government and all the political parties of the state that the name of the state be renamed from West Bengal to Paschim Banga.
“In Bengali we call our state Paschim Banga but in English we say West Bengal. But from now on in English also, our state will be called and will be written as Paschim Banga,” said Banerjee while addressing a programme here.
An all-party meeting was held in the state assembly Friday to discuss the renaming
of the state.
“The new name will now be passed in the state assembly then it will be sent to the union ministry of home affairs. From there, it will go to the parliament and then to the president for assent,” Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader Manoj Bhattacharjee who was present in the meeting, told IANS.
“We felt that due to historical and administrative reasons, all of us wanted to rename the state. After lot of discussion we found that it is better to have a name which is closer to the alphabet ‘A’. We may not be very closer to ‘A’ but we have upgraded ourselves from ‘W’ to ‘P’ which is much closer to ‘A’,” Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee said at a media conference here.
- West Bengal to be christened Paschim Banga: Minister - Aug 19, 2011
- West Bengal now becomes Paschim Banga (Lead) - Aug 19, 2011
- 'Paschim Banga' invokes mixed response in Kolkata - Aug 19, 2011
- Left may raise law and order issue at Bengal meeting - Jul 28, 2011
- LF may raise law and order at all-party meet - Jul 29, 2011
- Dropping names: Intellectuals divided on renaming West Bengal - Jul 10, 2011
- Mamata, opposition discuss renaming of West Bengal - Aug 03, 2011
- Left Front leaders to attend Mamata's swearing-in - May 20, 2011
- It's Buddha versus Mamata again in Bengal - Feb 29, 2012
- Paschimbanga: Where's the change dude? - Aug 20, 2011
- Poll all stakeholders before reorganisation: Left Front - Aug 19, 2011
- Mamata elected Trinamool legislature party chief - May 15, 2011
- Marxists-Mamata agree: name change could be game change (Lead) - Jul 07, 2011
- Township must be named after Jyoti Basu: Left - Oct 21, 2011
- Peaceful voting, 75 percent turnout in Bengal (Roundup) - Apr 27, 2011
Tags: administrative reasons, alphabet, assent, bengali, bhattacharjee, chief minister, industries minister, mamata banerjee, manoj, ministry of home affairs, opposition parties, parliament, partha chatterjee, political parties, revolutionary socialist party, state assembly, state government, union ministry, west bengal government