{"id":300817,"date":"2018-07-26T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300817"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:48:45","slug":"west-bengal-assembly-passes-bill-to-change-states-name-to-bangla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-assembly-passes-bill-to-change-states-name-to-bangla\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Assembly passes bill to change state&#8217;s name to &#8216;Bangla&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300818 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee-478x420.jpg 478w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/>The West Bengal (WB) Assembly on July 26 unanimously passed a bill to change the state&#8217;s name to &#8216;Bangla&#8217;. The resolution will now be sent to the\u00a0<\/span>Union<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> Home Ministry for further approval. Once the bill is approved, West Bengal\u2019s name will officially be changed to \u2018Bangla\u2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In August 2016, WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had proposed that the state <\/span>be<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> named Bangla in Bengali, <\/span>Bangal<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> in Hindi and Bengal in English. However, the Central Government had turned down the state government&#8217;s proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One of the main reasons cited by West Bengal to change the name is because WB is always last in a list of states in alphabetical order whenever there was a meeting of all states or any event CM herself was supposed to address any meeting between the Union government and the states, West Bengal came at the bottom of the list alphabetically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Before that in 2011 when Mamata Banerjee took the office of chief minister of the state, the state government had sent a proposal to the Centre for renaming West Bengal as &#8220;Paschim Bango&#8221;, but that too was rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal (WB) Assembly on July 26 unanimously passed a bill to change the state&#8217;s name to &#8216;Bangla&#8217;. The resolution will now be sent to the\u00a0Union Home Ministry for further approval. Once the bill is approved, West Bengal\u2019s name will officially be changed to \u2018Bangla\u2019. In August 2016, WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[3869,1604,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300819,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300817\/revisions\/300819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}