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Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir’s assertion of laying the instauration chromatic of a “Babri Masjid” successful West Bengal’s Murshidabad territory has stirred authorities successful the election-bound State, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that this is an effort to crook “West Bengal into West Bangladesh”.
The claims of operation of “Babri Masjid” person fixed a grip to the BJP, with State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya saying that specified remarks were an effort to crook “West Bengal into West Bangladesh”.
Mr. Kabir, who is an MLA from the Bharatpur Assembly constituency, has implicit the past respective days stated that helium volition commencement operation of “Babri Masjid” connected December 6, the time the Babri Masjid was demolished successful Ayodhya successful 1992. While the spot wherever the mosque volition beryllium acceptable up has not yet been confirmed, posters successful enactment of “Babri Masjid” person travel up successful the Beldanga country of the district.
Mr. Kabir has said that adjacent the Supreme Court had directed that a mosque should beryllium constructed successful Ayodhya, but immoderate mosque which is “constructed by non-Muslims is not considered holy”.
“It is my law close to conception a mosque,” the MLA said. Mr. Kabir has adjacent appeared to propulsion a situation to the State authorities and said, “If the State authorities tin springiness honorarium to Durga Puja clubs, clasp a carnival and each of it is constitutional, past however tin operation of a mosque beryllium unconstitutional”. The Bharatpur MLA has, implicit the past respective months, often targeted his enactment and adjacent threatened to discontinue and contention Assembly elections arsenic an autarkic candidate.
The claims of operation of “Babri Mosque” person fixed a grip to the BJP, with the State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya saying that specified remarks were an effort to crook “West Bengal into West Bangladesh”. “We are not acold from the clip erstwhile West Bengal volition beryllium turned into West Bangladesh. Some radical are saying that they volition conception Babri Masjid. They tin bash it if they person guts. So acold determination person been nary comments by the Chief Minister [Mamata Banerjee] connected the issue. So, we person to judge that this is her [Chief Minister’s] docket also,” Mr. Bhattacharya said.
The Trinamool Congress enactment has officially not reacted to the claims by its MLA. It is besides absorbing to enactment that Mr. Kabir, who has often been accused of making communally charged remarks, was a subordinate of the BJP a fewer years agone and adjacent contested the 2019 Lok Sabha predetermination from Murshidabad connected a BJP ticket.
Murshidabad territory has been 1 of the astir volatile districts of the State, witnessing respective incidents of governmental and communal unit implicit the past fewer years. In April 2025, the territory witnessed communal riots implicit the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, wherever 3 radical died and hundreds were near homeless. A conception of those affected by unit had to fly to adjoining Malda territory to flight violence.
