Published on: Dec 05, 2025 08:50 pm IST
Humayun Kabir, who was suspended by TMC on Thursday, has already announced plans to launch his own party later this month to fight the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections AI Quick Read
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Friday declined to stop an event organised by a suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker to lay the foundation stone for a mosque modelled on Ayodhya’s Babri Masjid in Bengal’s Murshidabad district, but directed the state police to take adequate steps to maintain law and order at the spot, lawyers who attended the hearing said.
A view of Calcutta High Court (Samir Jana/HT File Photo) Humayun Kabir, the MLA from Murshidabad’s Bharatpur constituency, has announced his plan to build the mosque in the district’s Beldanga area which would be modelled on the Babri Masjid demolished in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The Beldanga area was rocked by communal violence in April this year. Central police forces are still deployed in the region on orders of the Calcutta high court.
Senior TMC leader Firhad Hakim announced Kabir’s suspension from the party on Thursday, declaring that his conduct amounted to gross indiscipline at a time when TMC is trying to maintain peace and communal harmony in Bengal. Later, addressing a rally in Murshidabad, chief minister Mamata Banerjee described Kabir as a “traitor working for the Bharatiya Janata Party”.
Lawyer Sabyasachi Chatterjee, who appeared for the petitioner in the high court on Friday, said the petition was heard by a division bench led by acting chief justice Sujoy Paul, which underscored that the responsibility for maintaining law and order rested with the state government.
“We had prayed to the court for a stay to ensure that no such activity leads to communal disharmony or poses danger to citizens,” Chatterjee added.
The petition complained that the MLA had been making “filthy and derogatory statements and hate speech against a community, which causes breach of public tranquillity. Such kind of statements and hate speech over social media and YouTube news portal, being a member of the legislative assembly, may break the communal harmony of our state as well as our country,” it said.
During Friday’s hearing in
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