Eminent personalities in West Bengal today welcomed the TMC government's move to rename the state as 'Bangla'.
The state Assembly today passed a resolution to rename the state as 'Bangla' in three languages -- Bengali, English and Hindi.
Film director Goutam Ghosh said that he was happy with the move.
The name Paschim Bango (West Bengal) had reference to the partition, he said. "It rekindles the painful memory of migration and leaving behind one's residence and property, one's place of birth and growing up."
Popular Bengali writer Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay said, "We all had been asking for this for long."
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