Twelve Trinamul Congress MPs met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to demand early introduction of a constitutional amendment to change the name of West Bengal to Bangla. “We went to meet the Prime Minister as a follow-up to our chief minister’s letter in which she urged the Centre to do the needful to change the name of the state,” Trinamul MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said. The Trinamul government has been trying since 2011 to change the name of the state. Multiple MPs who attended the meeting told this newspaper that the meeting went off well and that Modi asked about the process of changing the name. The Trinamul delegation also told Modi about the party’s opposition to the Centre’s plan to divest public sector units, especially Air India.

Source: The Telegraph July 24, 2019 20:30 UTC