Bengal Left's Hypocrisy: Allies with Babri Replica Builder Humayun Kabir

• West Bengal's Left Front, historically secular, is reportedly forming an alliance with Humayun Kabir, a suspended TMC MLA known for hardline communal rhetoric and plans to build a Babri Masjid replica in Murshidabad's Beldanga.
• Kabir's project, set for December 6, 2025 (anniversary of Babri demolition), and his calls for Muslim unity, contradict the Left's long-standing opposition to communal forces like BJP and RSS.
• The Congress has distanced itself from this potential alliance, similar to its stance during the 2021 Assembly elections with the Indian Secular Front (ISF), despite CPI(M) leader Mohammed Salim's public criticism.
• This move is seen as political opportunism by the Left to regain relevance after its vote share plummeted, risking alienation of its traditional secular base and accelerating the Islamisation of Bengal's politics.
• Past alliances, like with ISF's Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui in 2021, were electoral failures and criticised internally, yet the Left appears to be repeating this strategy with Kabir's Janata Unnayan Party (JUP).

Why It Matters: Bengal's Left Front faces accusations of hypocrisy for allying with communal leader Humayun Kabir for electoral gains.