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West Bengal Assembly passes resolution to rename state as 'Bangla', awaits Home Ministry approval
The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution today to rename the state as 'Bangla' in three languages -- Bengali, English and Hindi.
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The resolution was moved by the Trinamool Congress and supported by the Left parties and the Congress.
The move is aimed at climbing the alphabetical sequence of state names in which West Bengal appears last in the list now.
Earlier, the Centre had rejected the state government's proposals of having three names Bangla (in Bengali), Bengal (in English) and Bangal (in Hindi).
The Mamata Banerjee government's proposal of renaming West Bengal as "Paschim Bango" in 2011 was also turned down by the Centre.
The state will have to wait for the nod from the Home Ministry for a final approval on the resolution.
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