West Bengal braces for a politically fraught Saturday (December 6, 2025) as suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir pushes ahead with the foundation-laying ceremony for a 'Babri Masjid-style' mosque in Murshidabad, triggering high alert and sharpened political messaging on a date laden with communal sensitivities.

The Beldanga site, where Mr. Kabir claimed "three lakh people" would assemble, has been sealed into a high-security grid, with deployment of the Rapid Action Force (RAF), district police, and central forces on both sides of the National Highway (NH) 12, after the Calcutta High Court declined to halt the event but placed full responsibility for public order on the State Government.

The proposed mosque, which Mr. Kabir has repeatedly described as being “modelled on

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