12000 families of Barisal Divn observed Eid on Thursday following Saudi calender

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Barisal Correspondent :
More than forty-five thousand people of twelve thousand families observed Eid- ul- Azha on Thursday in accordance with Saudi Arabia in 80 places of 10 upazilas under Barisal, Patuakhali, Bhola, Jhalakati and Barguna districts.
They offered Eid Jamats (Eid congregational prayer) and slaughtered sacrificed-animals on Thursday morning.
Participants of the Eid ul Azha festival on Thursday claimed they are the followers of Kaderia, Jahangiria and Chistia Tarika and Pir of Elahabad Sufia Darbarsharif at Kanchan Nagor and Pir Shaheb of Mariachi Darbar Sharif of Satkania under Chittagong district.
They are the resident of Madhavpasha, Kedarpur, Tajkati, Talukdar Char, Nishan Baria, Haji Banshkati of Babuganj, Sundarkati of Bakerganj, and Harinafulia of Sadar upazilas of Barisal, Galachipa, and different villages of Baufal, Kalapara and Sadar upazilas of Patuakhali, Charfesson upazila of Bhola, Taltali of Barguna and Nalcity upazila of Jhalakati districts.
Zahangir Shikdar, one of the followers of this sect, said they usually observe all religious festivals, customs and worshipping according to the calendar and systems of Saudi Arabia.
Amir Duari, another local leader of them, said they observed Eid ul Azha one day before the other sects according to the direction of their Pir Shaheb of Mariachi Darbar Sharif of Satkania under Chittagong district.
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