The BJP government in West Bengal will observe June 20 as state day from this year, Minister Dilip Ghosh said on Wednesday after a Cabinet meeting.

He said that under Syama Prasad Mookerjee's leadership, June 20 was marked as "Bengal Day" in the then Bengal Assembly following a vote on a resolution that day in 1947, which paved the way for the partition of Bengal and the formation of the state of West Bengal.