Kolkata, Dec 21: Taking exception to West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government’s plan to change the name of a town christened once former chief minister Jyoti Basu, left leaders and different eminent persons Friday urged wanted the intervention of Governor M.K. Narayanan to redress their grievance.
“It goes without saying that the people as an entire, object to the try of adjusting the name of Jyoti Basu Nagar, by the West Bengal government,” aforesaid a note given to Narayanan by the Jyoti Basu Birth Centenary Celebration Committee.
The Trinamool Congress regime last month withdrew within the state assembly the new town, Kolkata Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2011 passed by the erstwhile Left Front regime that had enclosed a proposal to call the new town|populated area} area as JyotiBasuNagar.
Narayanan has already disapproved the dropping of the bill, whereas the Left has been rigorous introduction of a new legislation restoring the name.
Hasim Abdul Halim, working president of the committee, claimed before journalists that the governor told the delegation that he has already communicated to the govt. that he wasn’t in favor of adjusting the name.
“It is requested that being the constitutional head of the state, you’d be kind enough to require up the problem suitably and redress the natural grievance of the those that it generates,” aforesaid the note.
The delegation discerned that the low frequency government had named new town once Basu in recognition of his vast contribution in building the fashionable town.
HIDCO, a administrative body that developed the government agency, took a resolution August 12, 2010 to call it once Basu, and referred the touch on the housing department that approved the proposal that was later okayed by the state cabinet.
The bill was then lapsed the legislature, however the governor referred it to the Trinamool government, that came to power in may 2011.
Basu holds the record for being the longest serving chief minister. The Marxist patriarch occupied the chair from 1977 to 2000, once he voluntarily stepped down thanks to old age.