Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Pat came the reply in the Bengal Assembly. Soon after, chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to expedite the change of name to Bangla as the state government had proposed. In the letter to Modi on the name change, Mamata politely pointed out that the proposal carried the weight of the endorsement of the Assembly. Mamata listed the renaming efforts since 2011, involving multiple suggestions and culminating in the Assembly resolution in July 2018 to change the name to Bangla.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2019 21:41 UTC