GAIBANDHA, Oct 27, 2020 (BSS) – A five-day Sharadiya Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of the Hindu Community, ended in all the seven upazilas in the district on Tuesday peacefully through the immersion of deities at different water bodies.
On the Dashami day, members of Hindu Community exchanged greetings with each other saying ‘Shuvo Bijoya. Later, hundreds of Hindu devotees bid a tearful farewell to the deity, which is called ‘Visarjan’.
Before removing the idols of Mother Durga and others gods and goddess from the altars for immersion the Hindu devotees irrespective of ages and danced and sang kirton expressing their deep emotional pathos.
They offered arati to the Devi Durga with billowing smokes from the Dhup pots seeking her divine blessing for them. Then, the idols of Goddess Durga were brought out from all the puja mandaps of the district at evening.
Foolproof security measures had been taken by the law enforcing agencies including ansar, police, and Rab to avert any sort of unpleasant incident during the immersion, said superintendent of police (SP) Muhammad Towhidul Islam.
A total of 562 puja mandaps were set up in all the seven upazilas of the district this year and a large number of law enforcers were deployed in and around the puja mandaps to maintain the law and order situation, said deputy commissioner Abdul Matin.
The government also distributed a total of 281 tonnes of rice to the puja mandaps of the district to help the Hindu community celebrate the festival properly, the DC also said.
Deputy speaker of the Jatiya Sangshad Advocate Fazley Rabbi Miah, Umme Kuksum Smrity, MP , Engineer Monowar Hossain Chowdhury, MP, and Barrister Shamim Haider Patwary, MP, visited the puja mandaps here separately during the puja period and exchanged their greetings to the devotees and the committee of the puja mandaps on the festival.
Ranajit Bakshi Surja, president of Bangladesh Puja Celebration Parishad, district unit, and its general secretary Dipok Kumar Pal thanked the government for taking the necessary measures for holding the Durga Puja in the district in a peaceful way and in a befitting manner.