What is in a name? Bengal/West Bengal to be christened Paschim Banga: Minister

Kolkata, Aug  : Federation of West Bengal Trade Association taking opportunity of the West Bengal government's reported move to change name of the state, has suggested among other eight names starting with Bongo Rastro.Association's chairman Mahesh Kumar Singhania in a release today said they proposed eight names after coming to know that the Mamata Banerjee government was contemplating a new name for the state, which alphabetically comes closer to first letter. 

The association suggested names are Bongo Rastro, Bongo Rajya, Bangla Pradesh, Bongo Pradesh, Bengal, Bangla, Best Bengal and Bongo Bhumi.

Mr Singhania said these names were also cirulated to 16 leaders in early July and now to the public to elicit their opinion. 

  West Bengal to be christened Paschim Banga: Minister: The West Bengal government and the opposition parties Friday unanimously decided to rename the state Paschim Banga, state Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee announced.

”It has been unanimously decided by all the parties under the leadership of our Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that from now onwards West Bengal will be called Paschim Banga. From now onwards, in English also, the name of our state will be written as Paschim Banga,” Chatterjee said while addressing a media conference here.

“We have agreed with the state government regarding the renaming of West Bengal into Paschim Banga,” opposition leader Surya Kanta Mishra of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPi-M) said after the meeting.

“While considering the name, we considered all the aspects including administrative, historical and social aspects,” said Chatterjee.

--IANS