Chattogram Bureau :
The five-day long Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, comes to an end yesterday with solemn immersion of the Goddess Durga in the commercial capital cityl and elsewhere in the district.
Devotees thronged Puja mandaps to celebrate Bijoya Dashami yesterday , the last day of the festival and reciting the mantras and offering flowers to the goddess Durga (pushpanjali) and praying for her blessings. Each of the mandaps across the port city has been ornamented with beautiful idols, showcasing the goddess in all her glory. Bijoya Dashami is the special ceremony of reaffirming peace and good relations among people. On this day, families visit each other to share sweetmeats. Married Hindu women put vermilion on each other’s forehead on the occasion. This year, the religious festival is being celebrated at over 2000 puja mandaps throughout the district including 270 in the city . Devotees bid farewell to the mother deity and her children – Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesh – through the immersion of their idols in the water wishing Durga’s return next year.
The Puja pandals and temples in the port city and elsewhere in the district are now bustling with thousands of Hindu devotees as they thronged the mandaps to celebrate their biggest religious festival of Durga Puja.
The festivity reached its peak as devotees visit different Puja pandals from throughout the day to have last glance of goddess Durga seeking blessings for their well-being.
All puja mandaps are given decorative looks with colorful designs and lights while additional law enforcers have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival.
Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), district police and Puja committee source said, there was no report of any untoward incidents centering the Durga puja celebrations and immersion programs of Dashami..
CMP sources said a five to seven-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at each Puja Mandaps and adequate numbers of law enforcer including, Armed Police Battalions members have already been deployed at all necessary points particularly at Hindhu community residing area to maintain law and order.
Besides, plainclothes police men, members of the different intelligent agencies including RAB personnel are also being kept vigil in the area. Besides, district and Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have already opened separate control rooms at their respective headquarters to monitor the situation of 2144 puja Mondops in the district including 270 puja Mondops in the port city. These idols of Goddess Durga were immersed at Karnaphuli river, Patenga Sea beach, Kattali beach area, Kalurghat and Feringhee bazar spots in the city.
Meanwhile, leaders of different political parties irrespective of the religion, cast and creed are also visiting the Puja pandals to exchange greetings and pleasantries with their community members.As a part of the rituals of the last day of celebration, ‘Nabomi Vhog’ (feast) was offered to the goddess Durga by the devotees.on Monday night.
The celebration came into end through immersion of the idols of goddess Durga on Bijoya Dashami yesterday. .The five-day festival, celebrating the arrival of Goddess Durga on earth, ended yesterday through immersion of goddess.
Kumari Puja celebrated : As part of Durga Puja celebrations, Kumari Puja was held in Chattogram on Sunday.
The Hindu community on Sunday observed Maha Ashtami through performing the day’s main attraction Kumari Puja in the port city as elsewhere in the district. The Kumari Puja started at Shantoneshori Matri Mondir of Patharghata under the city’s Kotwali thana.
The Goddess Durga is worshipped in various forms during the five-day Sharodiya Durgotsab and one of those is worshiping Kumari as an epitome of virginity.
Several thousand Hindu devotees assembled at the city’s lone Kumari Puja venue to welcome and worship goddess Kumari at the podium. Eight-years-old Seriochi Biswas Tatoi, a class two student of city’s Saint Jocefs school, was worshipped as Kumari.
Devotees of all ages offered flowers at the feet of the Kumari, adored the girl with gold, silver and clothes, as part of their rites seeking blessings from the Goddess. The organisers also arranged cultural programmes on the occasion and later, Mohaprasad (sweets) along with anjali (flowers) was distributed among the devotees present there.
All puja mandaps are given decorative looks with colourful designs and lights while additional law enforcers have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival.
The five-day long Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, comes to an end yesterday with solemn immersion of the Goddess Durga in the commercial capital cityl and elsewhere in the district.
Devotees thronged Puja mandaps to celebrate Bijoya Dashami yesterday , the last day of the festival and reciting the mantras and offering flowers to the goddess Durga (pushpanjali) and praying for her blessings. Each of the mandaps across the port city has been ornamented with beautiful idols, showcasing the goddess in all her glory. Bijoya Dashami is the special ceremony of reaffirming peace and good relations among people. On this day, families visit each other to share sweetmeats. Married Hindu women put vermilion on each other’s forehead on the occasion. This year, the religious festival is being celebrated at over 2000 puja mandaps throughout the district including 270 in the city . Devotees bid farewell to the mother deity and her children – Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesh – through the immersion of their idols in the water wishing Durga’s return next year.
The Puja pandals and temples in the port city and elsewhere in the district are now bustling with thousands of Hindu devotees as they thronged the mandaps to celebrate their biggest religious festival of Durga Puja.
The festivity reached its peak as devotees visit different Puja pandals from throughout the day to have last glance of goddess Durga seeking blessings for their well-being.
All puja mandaps are given decorative looks with colorful designs and lights while additional law enforcers have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival.
Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), district police and Puja committee source said, there was no report of any untoward incidents centering the Durga puja celebrations and immersion programs of Dashami..
CMP sources said a five to seven-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at each Puja Mandaps and adequate numbers of law enforcer including, Armed Police Battalions members have already been deployed at all necessary points particularly at Hindhu community residing area to maintain law and order.
Besides, plainclothes police men, members of the different intelligent agencies including RAB personnel are also being kept vigil in the area. Besides, district and Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have already opened separate control rooms at their respective headquarters to monitor the situation of 2144 puja Mondops in the district including 270 puja Mondops in the port city. These idols of Goddess Durga were immersed at Karnaphuli river, Patenga Sea beach, Kattali beach area, Kalurghat and Feringhee bazar spots in the city.
Meanwhile, leaders of different political parties irrespective of the religion, cast and creed are also visiting the Puja pandals to exchange greetings and pleasantries with their community members.As a part of the rituals of the last day of celebration, ‘Nabomi Vhog’ (feast) was offered to the goddess Durga by the devotees.on Monday night.
The celebration came into end through immersion of the idols of goddess Durga on Bijoya Dashami yesterday. .The five-day festival, celebrating the arrival of Goddess Durga on earth, ended yesterday through immersion of goddess.
Kumari Puja celebrated : As part of Durga Puja celebrations, Kumari Puja was held in Chattogram on Sunday.
The Hindu community on Sunday observed Maha Ashtami through performing the day’s main attraction Kumari Puja in the port city as elsewhere in the district. The Kumari Puja started at Shantoneshori Matri Mondir of Patharghata under the city’s Kotwali thana.
The Goddess Durga is worshipped in various forms during the five-day Sharodiya Durgotsab and one of those is worshiping Kumari as an epitome of virginity.
Several thousand Hindu devotees assembled at the city’s lone Kumari Puja venue to welcome and worship goddess Kumari at the podium. Eight-years-old Seriochi Biswas Tatoi, a class two student of city’s Saint Jocefs school, was worshipped as Kumari.
Devotees of all ages offered flowers at the feet of the Kumari, adored the girl with gold, silver and clothes, as part of their rites seeking blessings from the Goddess. The organisers also arranged cultural programmes on the occasion and later, Mohaprasad (sweets) along with anjali (flowers) was distributed among the devotees present there.
All puja mandaps are given decorative looks with colourful designs and lights while additional law enforcers have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival.
