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Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) person and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) started operation of a mosque connected the lines of ‘Babri Masjid’ successful Beldanga successful Murshidabad district. Mr. Kabir said that the mosque volition beryllium completed wrong 2 years and would outgo astir ₹50-55 crore.
Thousands of locals joined the operation workers, arsenic the ceramic laying for the mosque started connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) afternoon. “ No powerfulness connected world tin halt the operation of this mosque. By the grace of God, we volition decorativeness its operation wrong 2 years. It volition beryllium built astatine a outgo of ₹50-55 crore,” Mr. Kabir added.
The Bharatpur MLA had started operation and had laid the instauration chromatic for a mosque, modelled connected Ayodhya’s Babri Masjid, connected December 6, 2025. Mr. Kabir was suspended by the Trinamool Congress connected December 4, 2025, for anti-party activities. Within weeks of his suspension he announced JUP and said that helium volition instrumentality connected the Trinamool and BJP successful the upcoming Assembly polls.
The announcement of the operation of a mosque, arsenic a replica of Babri Masjid, which was demolished connected December 6, 1992, successful Ayodhya, triggered crisp reactions successful West Bengal politics. While the determination has drawn galore supporters for Mr Kabir, it has created a crisp communal disagreement successful West Bengal up of the Assembly polls scheduled for the adjacent fewer months.
“My effort is for Islam to delight Allah and execute my devotion; it is not astir imposing anything,” the JUP person said. Mr. Kabir said those opposing him are constructing the mosque and are spending hundreds of crores connected the operation of temples successful the State. The West Bengal authorities has completed a ₹250 crore Jagannath temple astatine Digha successful April 2025 and announced 2 mega temples astatine Kolkata’s New municipality and Siliguri successful northbound Bengal.
Babri Yatra connected clasp
Mr. Kabir announced that helium has kept a march titled ‘Babri Yatra’ – a 235-km rally from Nadia’s Palashi to Itahar successful Uttar Dinajpur territory – connected clasp successful the aftermath of the ongoing committee exams. “I person been informed by Malda constabulary that the Babri Yatra would inconvenience the examinees of Madhyamik exams. I have, hence, decided to postpone that event, which was expected to beryllium held with a convoy of 100 cars,” helium said. The march was scheduled connected Thursday (February 12, 2026).
The MLA said that instead, helium volition clasp a 22-km march connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) from Palashi to Beldanga. “I person been informed by Malda constabulary that the Babri Yatra would inconvenience the examinees of Madhyamik exams. I have, hence, decided to postpone that lawsuit which was expected to beryllium held with a convoy of 100 cars,” helium said.
On Tuesday (February 10, 2026), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said that the ‘Babri Masjid’ would ne'er beryllium rebuilt till ‘Qayamat’ (Day of Judgment). West Bengal BJP person Dilip Ghosh said that the operation of ‘Babri Masjid’ was an effort to consolidate the Muslim ballot slope successful the State.
Recently, Mr. Kabir met Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State caput Md. Salim, triggering speculation astir a caller governmental alignment successful West Bengal politics. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Congress had entered into an electoral confederation with the Indian Secular Front (ISF), a comparatively caller governmental outfit astatine the time. Since the Congress enactment has decided to spell solo successful the 2026 Assembly polls, determination is simply a batch of speculation successful governmental circles that CPI(M) whitethorn state with ISF and JUP successful the upcoming Assembly polls.
