Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Sunday asserted that the state was "ready to end religious arrogance", while pointing out at "something witnessed in Murshidabad a day before".

Suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a mosque modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masjid in Murshidabad's Rejinagar.

Addressing a Gita recital at Brigade Parade Ground here, he said that the state is also ready to end corruption.

"West Bengal is ready to end religious arrogance," he said, while reciting from various religious texts.

The governor said that he witnessed something happening in Murshidabad on Saturday, without naming anybody or any programme.

Reciting from the Bhagavad Gita, the governor said, "Paritranaya sadhunam vinashaya cha dushkritam

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