Baharampur, Dec 6 (PTI) Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a mosque modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masjid at Rejinagar in Murshidabad district amid unprecedented security, injecting fresh political heat into an already polarised West Bengal ahead of the assembly polls due early next year.

The event, deliberately timed for December 6, the anniversary of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, unfolded under a dense security blanket as state police, RAF and central forces converted stretches of Rejinagar and neighbouring Beldanga into controlled zones.

Kabir, speaking from a sprawling stage set nearly a kilometre away from the proposed mosque site, cut a ceremonial ribbon with visiting clerics as chants of "Nara-e-Takbeer, Allahu Akbar" rolled across the groun

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