Durga Puja festival ends with immersion of idols in Rangpur. Photo : BSS

RANGPUR, Oct 2, 2025 (BSS) – The Sanaton community today completed the five-day celebration of its greatest religious festival, Durga Puja, where idols of goddess Durga were immersed in water bodies amidst huge festivities with due religious fervor.
 
Most of the idols of goddess Durga were immersed into the water bodies like Mulatol Dighee, Dimla Mandir Dighee, Jailkhana Ghat, Doulatpur Dighee, Rail Gate Dighee, the river Ghagot and other water bodies in the city and its surrounding areas by 8 pm.

The district and police administrations and Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) extended assistance to the puja mandap authorities in carrying and immersing the idols of Devi Durga into the rivers, ponds and other water bodies.    

This year, the Durga Puja was celebrated peacefully with religious rituals and ceremonies at 912 puja mandaps amidst tight security in eight upazilas of the district and Rangpur city.

On the last day of the five-day festival, 'Mahadashami', the puja mandap premises across the district were filled with crowds from the morning and were decorated with eye-catching and colorful decorations.

Hundreds of Sanaton devotees, mostly women attired in colorful dresses, throng the puja mandaps for the last ‘darshan’ of goddess Durga to seek her blessings for the well-being of the country, the nation, the people and the entire humanity.

They fed sweets to goddess Durga, put vermilion on her face and exchanged the same among themselves at the puja mandaps across the district.

Leaders of the Sanaton community and local units of Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad (BPUP) expressed satisfaction over the tight security measures taken by the authorities concerned to ensure peaceful celebrations of the Durga Puja festival.

Leaders of Rangpur district and city units of BPUP along with the Sanaton devotees participated in the process of immersions of the idols in the water bodies.

Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Rabiul Faisal, Superintendent of Police Md Abu Saim, leaders of the Sanaton community and BPUPs visited puja mandaps and extended full cooperation to the Sanaton community people.

“We had taken sufficient steps and security measures to ensure peaceful celebrations of the five-day Durga puja at all puja mandaps,” the Deputy Commissioner said.

RpMP Commissioner Md Majid Ali told reporters that the Sanaton community celebrated the five-day Durga Puja festival peacefully with great enthusiasm at all the mandaps in the city.

“We had taken adequate measures and ensured the use of closed circuit cameras at every puja mandap. Beside, the police force and puja celebration committees were vigilant to ensure the peaceful celebration of the festival,” he said.

Convener of the district and metropolitan units of BPUP Dr Nikhilendra Shankar Guha Roy thanked the interim government, local administrations and law enforcement agencies for ensuring complete security during the five-day Durga Puja festival.

He expressed happiness saying that the Santan devotees offered prayers, puja, archana, kirtons and performed other religious rituals peacefully without any problem.