BEHRAMPUR, Dec 6: Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a mosque modelled on Ayodhya’s Babri Masjid at Rejinagar in Murshidabad district amid unprecedented security, injecting fresh political heat into an already polarised Bengal ahead of polls due early next year.
The event, deliberately timed for December 6, the anniversary of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, unfolded under a dense security blanket as state police, RAF and central forces.Kabir, speaking from a sprawling stage set nearly a kilometre away from the proposed mosque site, cut a ceremonial ribbon with visiting clerics as chants of “Nara-e-Takbeer, Allahu Akbar” rolled across the grounds filled with thousands of supporters carrying symbolic bricks.“There is nothing unconstitutional about this. Building a place of worship is a constitutional right. Babri Masjid will be built,” Kabir said, claiming four lakh people attended the event. (PTI)
