India, Dec. 4 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday suspended party legislator Humayun Kabir, who had triggered a controversy by saying that he would lay the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid replica in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.

"We don't believe in communal politics. Kabir was warned thrice in the past by the party's disciplinary committee. But now he has again done this. With the consent of the party's chairperson and the national general secretary, the party is suspending him. He will have no relation with the party," Kolkata's mayor and state minister Firhad Hakim said.

The Bharatpur Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) had said that he would lay the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid replica on December 6.

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