The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the West Bengal government to take all necessary steps to prevent any communal tension in Murshidabad’s Beldanga, where suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir plans to lay the foundation stone of a mosque named “Babri Masjid.” The event is set for Saturday, coinciding with December 6, the anniversary of the 1992 Babri demolition in Ayodhya.

“The state must act according to its declared stance. Law and order in Murshidabad must be strictly maintained, and the lives and properties of citizens safeguarded,” a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen observed while disposing of a public interest litigation (PIL) filed against the proposed ceremony, as quoted by TOI.

Kabir’s plan comes just eight months after Murshida

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