West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced in the state assembly on Monday that the West Bengal government will conduct all official communications in Bengali from September 1.
He said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a letter urged him to take steps for extensive use of Bengali language at every level of state administration.
“From September 1, 2026, the use of Bengali language will be mandatory at every level of the state government,” the Chief Minister said.
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“We will use the Bengali language in all our communications with the Center and other states,” he said, adding that communications with the Union government will be in Hindi besides Bengali.
Adhikari said that during Shah’s three-day visit to West Bengal, the Union Home Minister wrote him a letter in Bengali.
Shah said in it that the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, firmly believed that Indian languages should have a proper place in administration, education and public life.
A day earlier, the Union Home Minister inaugurated the Word Museum here and stressed the need to learn at least one Indian language besides the mother tongue as he seeks to preserve the country’s linguistic diversity to protect its civilizational identity.
