Overview
- Humayun Kabir says he will lay the foundation stone for a mosque named ‘Babri’ on December 6 in Beldanga, Murshidabad, estimating about two lakh attendees and roughly 400 dignitaries.
- He states the project will take about three years to complete and that he has observed December 6 as a black day since 1992.
- Kabir will skip the Trinamool’s Samhati Diwas rally in Kolkata scheduled for the same day to oversee the Beldanga ceremony.
- He invited opposition ISF MLA Naushad Siddiqui to attend, saying participants would come as devout Muslims rather than as legislators.
- BJP leaders labeled the plan appeasement politics, and UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya said such construction would not be allowed “on the land of Bharat,” while the TMC leadership has not commented; Kabir is a known dissident who has previously faced party show-cause notices.