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Donations amounting to much than ₹1.30 crore person been collected truthful acold for the projected Babri Masjid-style mosque announced by suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir successful West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, leaders adjacent to the legislator claimed connected Monday (December 8, 2025).
According to them, ₹37.33 lakh successful currency has been counted from 4 donation boxes and 1 sack, portion online contributions via QR codes person reached ₹93 lakh. They said 7 much sealed donation boxes are yet to beryllium opened.
Mr. Kabir laid the instauration chromatic of the mosque astatine Rejinagar successful Murshidabad connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) amid unprecedented security, deliberately choosing December 6, the day of the demolition of the Babri Masjid successful Ayodhya, a determination that injected caller governmental vigor into an already polarised poll-bound Bengal.
A erstwhile Congress MLA who aboriginal joined the Trinamool Congress successful 2012, concisely crossed implicit to the BJP, and past returned to the ruling enactment successful 2020, Mr. Kabir has built a estimation for governmental turbulence and theatrics, with his suspension pursuing repeated run-ins with the enactment leadership.
The lawsuit drew tens of thousands of radical and was marked by elaborate arrangements, including the serving of shahi biryani to astir 40,000 attendees. That day, 11 ample stainless alloy donation boxes were placed astatine the venue, with Mr. Kabir appealing for nationalist contributions for the mosque's construction. Since then, supporters person continued to get with currency and adjacent bricks for the structure, locals said.
Cash-counting began astatine 7 p.m. connected Sunday (December 7, 2025) and continued till midnight, carried retired by a squad of 30 radical utilizing peculiar machines. The remaining 7 boxes are scheduled to beryllium opened from 5 p.m. connected Monday (December 8), with the aforesaid squad overseeing the process. To guarantee transparency, the counting was live-streamed, Mr. Kabir said.
Mr. Kabir claimed the effect had "exceeded each expectations", with donations allegedly besides coming successful from extracurricular India. Arrangements are being made to displacement the collected wealth to a secured country with CCTV surveillance, and discussions are underway with banks regarding its harmless handling, they added.
Mr. Kabir was suspended by the Trinamool Congress days earlier the instauration ceremonial arsenic the enactment distanced itself from his December 6 announcement.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's sojourn to Murshidabad for a rally against the elector database revision workout had coincided with the decision, pursuing which Mr. Kabir walked retired of the venue successful protest.
He has since announced that helium would motorboat a caller governmental enactment connected December 22 and tract candidates successful 135 Assembly constituencies successful the upcoming West Bengal elections, portion reiterating that the Rejinagar mosque would beryllium constructed astatine immoderate cost.
Even arsenic governmental temperatures stay high, locals said radical are inactive turning up astatine the tract with operation materials, underlining the emotive propulsion of a task that has evolved into a large governmental and spiritual flashpoint successful pre-election Bengal.
