Home Ministry raises issue with Mamata Banerjee's move to rename West Bengal

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s efforts to rename the state ‘Bangla’ have hit a roadblock with the Ministry of Home Affairs expressing concerns that that the new name could be confused with Bangladesh, creating difficulties at international forums.
According to sources, since India and Bangladesh share close and friendly relations, it was advised that the external affairs ministry should review West Bengal’s proposal and respond before it is goes through further examination. Unlike changing the name of a city or district, sources reasoned, altering name of a state requires a constitutional amendment.
The move, according to state officials, is aimed at climbing the alphabetical sequence of state names in which West Bengal appears last in the list now.

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