KOLKATA: West Bengal’s political temperature spiked on Thrusday after the Trinamool Congress suspended its Murshidabad MLA Humayun Kabir , after he reiterated that he would go ahead with a December 6 ‘shilanyas’ for a mosque modelled on the Babri Masjid in Murshidabad — despite Raj Bhawan’s concerns over possible law-and-order implications. Announcing the action, Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim said: “We noticed that one of our MLAs from Murshidabad suddenly declared that he would build the Babri Masjid. Why suddenly Babri Masjid? We already warned him. As per the decision of our party, TMC, we are suspending MLA Humayun Kabir.” Kabir, in open confrontation with the party leadership for months, insisted his programme would continue “under constitutional rights” and could draw “

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