New Delhi, March 2 -- BJP leader Anirban Ganguly on Monday opposed the West Bengal name change issue, stating that there was no state named Bangla and that the Trinamool Congress wants to erase the history behind the naming of West Bengal.

Speaking to ANI on the West Bengal name change issue, Ganguly said the Britishers used to call the province 'Bongo' and earlier writers and historians of West Bengal used to call it Bangla Desh.

"There was no state named Bangla, the Britishers used to call the province 'Bongo'. If you go through the writings of earlier writers and historians of West Bengal, they used to call it Bangla Desh. Now, there is a different country named Bangladesh so you can't rename it that way. Bangla is a language, so nam...