Chandrachur Ghose@chandrachurg
Joy Bangla was the national slogan of Bangladesh. Nothing to do with West Bengal.
The biggest irony is that a political party which has to steal the neighbouring country's national slogan and then claim that as its own slogan, also claims to represent Bengali pride.
Worse, they don't even have honesty to admit the theft. The party's IT cell coolies have been taught by some party 'intellectuals' that the slogan Joy Bangla is taken from a poem called Purno Abhinandan written by Kazi Nazrul Islam in 1923. Some even go to the extent of claiming that the poet himself coined the slogan.
The problem is that these geniuses have either not read the poem or do not understand Bangla.
The poem was written by Nazrul Islam in honour of the legendary revolutionary of Madaripur (now in Bangladesh) Purnachandra Das. The relevant lines in the poem are
জয় বাংলার পূর্ণচন্দ্র, জয় জয় আদি-অন্তরীণ!
জয় যুগে-যুগে-আসা-সেনাপতি, জয় প্রাণ আদি-অন্তহীন!
It refers to Joy Banglar Purna Chandra (victory to Bengal's Purnachandra, or literally, Bengal's full moon) and not to to Bengal per se. So where is the question of the slogan Joy Bangla emerging from this poem?
But then what other than theft can be expected from such a party? They won't even leave a slogan alone :-D