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Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir to form his party on Dec 22

Kolkata, Dec 7 (UNI) A day after laying the foundation stone of controversial new Babri Masjid in his Muslim dominated home district of Murshidabad in West Bengal, suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Sunday announced that he will form his new party on December 22 and revert his decision to quit his Bharatpur assembly seat in the district.
After laying the foundation stone via remote control from Rejinagar in presence of two clerics from Saudi Arabia, Kabir today visited the spot where the Babri mosque is planned to be constructed even as hundreds of his followers assembled carrying bricks, iron rods and bags of sands and dumped them on a demarcated paddy field.
He also announced to hold a mass Holy Quran recital by one people in early February, following his foundation-laying of the Babri Masjid- model mosque in a place in Murshidabad, amid a backdrop of Gita path by five lakh voices in Kolkata. Kabir said he will host all the participants with a feast of meat and rice on the day when whole day Qyran recitation to be held in early February next year.
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