RANGPUR, May 3, 2022 (BSS) - The holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festivity of the Muslims, was celebrated amid a pleasant cloudy weather with due religious fervor and solemnity and tight security measures here today.
 
  The Musollis of all ages, attired in traditional Eid dresses, participated at Eid-ul-Fitr congregations held at different Eidgahs, mosques and grounds in the city, all eight upazilas and three municipalities across the district.
 
  Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP), district police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13, Police Investigation Bureau and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies took ample steps to ensure peaceful holding of Eid congregations in festive atmosphere.
 
  Rangpur City Corporation with assistance of the district administration and other authorities concerned prepared the Central Collectorate Eidgah and decorated the main streets with colourful flags bearing inscriptions 'Eid Mubarak' in the city.
 
  Besides, the main streets and major buildings and mosques were illuminated and colorfully decorated marking the Eid-ul-Fitr festivity.
 
  The important government and private buildings and mosques were colorfully decorated and illuminated giving charming looks to the city.
 
  Improved diets were served to inmates of different hospitals, jails, shishu paribars, orphanages and vagrant welfare centres.
 
  The main Eid-ul-Fitr congregation was held at the Central Collectorate Eidgah at 8:30 am with participation of thousands of Musollis, including high officials, political leaders and dignitaries of the city.
 
  Divisional Commissioner Md. Abdul Wahhab Bhuiyan, Mayor of Rangpur Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa, Deputy Commissioner Md. Asib Ahsan, high officials and dignitaries and participated in the main Eid-ul-Fitr congregation.
 
  Besides, leaders of Awami League and other political parties, public representatives, academics, business community leaders, civil society members, professionals, journalists and elite of the city participated in the main congregation.
 
  RpMP Commissioner Abdul Alim Mahmud participated in the Eid-ul-Fitr congregation held at RpMP Police Lines ground while Superintendent of Police Md. Ferdous Ali Chowdhury took part at the Eid congregation held at Police Lines ground.
 
  Like in the previous years, the biggest Eid-ul-Fitr congregation of the district was held at Taluk Habu Eidgah Maidan under Gangachara upazila.
 
  In Rangpur city, the other bigger Eid congregations were held at Keramotia Jam-e-Mosque, Nasirabad Ekramia Jam-e-Mosque, Kamal Kachhna Jam-e-Mosque, Mahiganj Afan Ullah Jam-e-Mosque, Mahiganj College Mosque, Satmatha Jam-e-Mosque, Munshipara Eidgah, Central Bus Terminal Jam-e-Mosque, RCCI School and College ground, Jummapara Eidgah, Shalbon Mistripara Eidgah, Medical College ground, Nilkanthya Master Para Eidgah, Pakar Matha Jam-e-Mosque, Bahar Kachhna Jam-e-Mosque, Damodarpur Baro Eidgah, Khasbag Angur Mian Jam-e-Mosque, Alamnagar Waqf Mosque, Dhap Mohammadpur Jam-e-Mosque between 8:30 am and 9:30 am.
 
  Besides, dozens of Eid-ul-Fitr congregations were held in the local Eidgahs, mosques, open places and grounds at all eight upazila headquarters and rural areas as per locally fixed time schedules between 8:30 am and 10:30 am.
 
  The Musollis offered special munajats at all Eid congregations seeking divine blessings for eternal peace of departed souls of their nearer and dearer ones, continued peace and prosperity of the country, its people and Muslim Ummah and humanity as a whole.