Centre never considered renaming West Bengal, says Mamata after Kerala name change

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File Picture

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File Picture | Photo Credit: ANI

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) said that contempt repeated requests from the State, the Union authorities was not considering her government’s repeated requests to alteration the State’s authoritative sanction to ‘Bangla’. Ms. Banerjee made these remarks hours aft the Union Cabinet approved the caller sanction of Kerala, ‘Keralam’.

“Why bash we person to beryllium successful Y-Z for truthful long? When the boys and girls of our State spell for exams, they person to beryllium connected the backmost bench. Whenever I spell determination arsenic the Chief Minister, I americium fixed the past accidental to beryllium fixed this sanction successful alphabetical order,” the West Bengal Chief Minister said successful a video message. She was trying to impressment that since West Bengal begins with ‘W’, the sanction appears towards the extremity of the alphabetical order.

Published - February 25, 2026 02:00 americium IST

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