CPI backs Mamta govt.on decision to rename West Bengal

TIL Desk/National/Kolkata-The Communist Party of India, for a change, is on the same page as the Trinamool Congress government on the issue of renaming the state as ‘Bengal’, saying the move reflected reality. “We agree. It’s alright. No problem,” CPI General Secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy told on the West Bengal government’s proposal to change the name of the state.

The West Bengal Cabinet yesterday took up a proposal to rename the state as ‘Bengal’ in English and ‘Bango’ or ‘Bangla’ in Bengali.

“Now we are giving a new proposal and will convene a special session of the Assembly on August 26 to pass a resolution to this effect,” state minister Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata yesterday.