BSS-13 Swaraswati Puja celebrated in Rajshahi

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Swaraswati Puja celebrated in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Jan 22, 2018 (BSS)- The Hindu community today celebrated the Swaraswati Puja with the spirit of pursuing education and knowledge, traditional gaiety and due religious fervour everywhere in Rajshahi division.

Puja mandaps, mandirs and a large number of educational institutions have been colourfully decorated as hundreds of devotees seek blessings since morning from the `Devi Swaraswati’, the Goddess of knowledge.

The devotees, especially the students attired in colourful dresses, offered special prayers and observed fasting as per the ritual of the festival to seek knowledge from the Goddess Swaraswati.

In Rajshahi metropolis, a large number of images of Goddess Swaraswati, symbolizing a graceful woman riding on a swan, were erected at different puja mandaps, mandirs and educational institutions.

Swaraswati Puja was celebrated at Rajshahi University, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Rajshahi College, Rajshahi Medical College, Teachers Training College, Polytechnic Institute side by side with different educational institutions and many other places in the city.

The celebration also included offering of Devi Aradhona, Pushpanjoli, `archanas’, `anjolis’, `aratis’, distribution of `Prasad’, `Arati Competitions’, cultural functions and staging of drama.

To mark the celebration, Rajshahi University Central Puja Udjapan Parishad (RUPUP) arranged a baniarchana programme at central puja mondap premises today. Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Rajshahi Avijit Chottopaddhya was present there.

RU Vice-chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan and Pro-VC Prof Ananda Kumar Shaha addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with RUPUP President Prof Biswanath Shikder in the chair.

Indian Assistant High Commissioner Abhijit Bhattacharja, RU Treasurer Prof Mustafizur Rahman, Proctor Prof Lutfor Rahman and Professor Emeritus Arun Kumar Basak also spoke.

Similar reports on celebration of Swaraswati Puja were received here from Chapainawabganj, Natore, Naogaon, Bogra, Joypurhat, Pabna and Sirajganj districts in Rajshahi division.

BSS/AH/AU/16:00 hrs