Kolkata: Trinamool Congress suspended Humayun Kabir, the legislator from the Bharatapur Assembly constituency in minority-dominated Murshidabad district, on Thursday. He had recently announced plans to construct a Babri Mosque at Beldanga in the same district, resembling the structure in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, which was demolished in December 1992.

The West Bengal Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister and the Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Firhad Hakim, said the party had taken this decision because of his recent activities that smelt of politics with a religious fervour, which was deemed by the Trinamool Congress leadership as a severe breach of party discipline.

“The party will not maintain any connection with Kabir. By announcing the construction of the Bab

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