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Mamata said that the BJP government had been unilaterally changed the names of various places for their political agenda. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Centre of going on a

spree of renaming places but not agreeing to change the name of West Bengal to Bangla. Mamata said that the BJP government had been unilaterally changed the names of various places for their

political agenda. "The name of Orissa was changed to Odisha because of their language. We had put in the proposal two years ago to rename the state to Bangla in Bengali, Bangal in

Hindi and Bengal in English. The Centre said we should stick to one name and then we made an amendment at the Assembly and resent it," she said. The CM said that she had reminded Union

Home minister Rajnath Singh as well. "It has got stuck in a suffocating political knot. This shows how much they love Bengal. One has to remember that the country is run by the states

in a federal structure. According to the constitution, the chief ministers are heads of the states. Like the Centre, the state governments have also been elected. Few ministers at the Centre

don't run the country," she said. The CM said that her state was doing it as per the constitution. "But these people (Centre) are not sticking to the constitution or federal

structure. This cannot go on," she added. State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said that the party would put up a resistance against the proposed change. "There is a history why the

state has been named West Bengal. Perhaps 'didimoni' (Mamata) is trying to make it another West Bangladesh. Do the people of West Bengal want the change? We will resist the

attempt," he said. BJP TO RESIST CHANGE State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said that the party will resist against the change. “There is a history why the state has been named West Bengal.

Perhaps ‘didimoni’ (Mamata) is trying to make it another West Bangladesh. Do the people of WB want the change? We will resist this,” he said