A part of Bangla-speaking people was put in West Bengal through the Partition of India in 1947. State lawmakers would also get to choose between the Bengali names "Bangla" or "Bongo", said state minister Partha Chatterjee. An earlier initiative to rename the state Paschim Banga - or West Bengal in the vernacular - would have moved it only about a quarter of the way up the list. The Sammilito Sangskritik Jote organised a meeting at Dhaka University's TSC on Tuesday to protest against the resloution passed by Mamata's cabinet. Drama personality Nasir Uddin Yusuf Bachchu said the change of the name would risk the "Joy Bangla" slogan being mixed up with West Bengal.

Source: bd News24 October 18, 2016 22:07 UTC