Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participates in Paschimbanga Divas celebrations in Hooghly, West Bengal

• Paschimbanga Divas (West Bengal Foundation Day) is observed on 20 June to commemorate the 1947 Bengal Legislative Assembly vote that placed Hindu-majority districts of undivided Bengal within the Indian Union.
• PM Modi participated in the 2026 state-level function at Tarakeswar, Hooghly, launching multi-sector projects spanning railways, agriculture, rural development, fisheries and animal husbandry.
• Relevance: tests GS-I (Post-Independence consolidation/Partition), GS-II (federalism, Centre–State relations) and GS-III (rural/agri/infra) with a current-affairs hook.