Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir escalated a brewing party crisis on Monday by issuing a direct public challenge to the Murshidabad district administration, declaring that he will personally lay the foundation stone for a full-scale replica of the Babri Masjid in Beldanga on December 6—the exact anniversary of the 1992 demolition—and warning that any attempt to obstruct him will trigger an indefinite blockade of the 30-kilometre national highway stretch between Rejinagar and Baharampur.

Addressing reporters at the proposed site, the rebellious legislator asserted that four of the six landowners have already executed sale agreements in his favour, while accusing the two holdouts—senior Trinamool MLAs Hasanuzzaman Sheikh and Rabiul Alam Chowdhury—of acting on instructions from the party high command to scuttle the project, a claim that lays bare the deepening factional rift within the ruling dispensation ahead of the 2026 assembly polls.

Kabir coupled his mosque announcement with a scathing attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she has quietly abandoned her earlier fierce opposition to both the Waqf (Amendment) Act and the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of voter lists, pointing out that state officials have been implementing the revision since November 4 despite her public protests scheduled for the same Muslim-dominated region.

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Party sources confirmed growing anger at the highest levels over Kabir’s unilateral actions, with disciplinary measures now considered imminent. Senior MP Kalyan Banerjee publicly dismissed the MLA as politically insignificant, insisting that in West Bengal only Mamata Banerjee commands genuine public trust and that the organisation functions solely under her leadership.

The BJP wasted no time in framing the episode as evidence of calculated communal polarisation by the Trinamool supremo, with MLA Agnimitra Paul asserting that Kabir is merely voicing what he has been authorised to say, and that the absence of immediate suspension or expulsion proves the chief minister’s tacit approval of the provocative December 6 plan.

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