Monsoon Session of Assembly to kick off on Friday

Kolkata: The Monsoon Session of the West Bengal Assembly is going to start from July 20. It will continue till July 31.

The all-party meeting before the session was held on Wednesday. Senior leaders of all the political parties including Trinamool Congress, CPI(M) and BJP were present in the meeting.

Senior Trinamool Congress leader and Parliamentary Affairs minister Partha Chatterjee and state Finance minister Amit Mitra were present in the meeting.

It has been learnt that some important bills, including one of the Correctional Administration department, will be placed in the Assembly in this session.

Sources said that the matter related to the nomenclature of the state will also come up in the Assembly.

It may be mentioned that on August 29 in 2016, the state Assembly had passed the resolution of renaming the state as "Bangla" and "Bengal" in English in a special session.

Later, on September 2017, the state Cabinet had decided to go for only one name for the state. It has been learnt that the Centre has also urged the state government to suggest one name for all languages.

The matter related to upgrading Krishnanath College in Murshidabad to a university, will also come up in the Assembly in this session.