Sylhet Correspondent :
The Hindu community on Thursday observed Maha Ashtami through performing the day’s main attraction Kumari Puja in the Sylhet city as elsewhere in the Sylhet district.
The Kumari Puja started at Ramkrishono Missoin Mondir in the city’s Kotwali thana at around 12 noon.
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.
13-year-old Bornali Chowdhury, daughter of local businessman Anjon Chowdhury and a class seven student of city’s Agrogami Girls’ High School, was worshipped as Kumari.
Devotees of all ages offered flowers at the feet of the Kumari adorning 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 were given enchanting looks with colourful designs and lights while additional members of law enforcement agency have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival
Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP), district police and Puja committee source said, there was no report of any untoward incidents centering the Durga puja celebrations.
SMP sources said a five to seven-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at every Puja Mandap and adequate numbers of law enforcer including, Armed Police Battalion members have already been deployed in all areas where members of Hindhu community reside to maintain law and order.
Dupchanchia(Bogra) Correspondent adds: The Deputy Commissioner Asraf Uddin and Superintendent of Police Asaduzzaman have visited Taunbaroary puja mondops of Dupchanchia municipality area to ensure the peaceful law and order situation here in Bogra district on the day of Nabomi. The Hindu religious people are celebrating enthusiastically the greatest festival of Durga puja across the upazila
Puja Ujjapon parishad upazila unit source said, a total 37 puja mondops in the upazila are decorated simultaneously satisfying the goddess Durga across the district.
During the time of government visiting additional deputy commissioner Khorshed Alam, Dupchanchia municipality mayor Belal Hossain, secretary of Awami-league upazila unit Alhaj Fazlul Haque, president of press club Golam Faque, journalist Emdadul Haque, Belal Hossain, Taofiq Alam and councilor of the municipality were present there.
President of Puja Ujjapon Parishad Dupchanchia upazila unit Asim Kumar Das said, the Durga Puja in the district is being celebrated with due solemnity, fervour and ceremony. All are set to kick off the Puja through the mentioned mandaps in the district. Aiming at celebrating the Puja with most perfection and religious chastity, the devotee are busy in bow down their heads before the statues of Durga at the different places of the areas, he added.
BSS from Rangpur reports: Tens of thousands of the Hindu community people celebrated the “Kumari Puja” on the Mahaashtami yesterday here in a befitting manner worshiping Goddess Durga in the Kumari form with due religious fervour.
The Hindu devotees thronged the puja mandaps to observe Kumari Puja, one of the most significant programmes during five-day celebrations of their greatest religious festivity of universal “Sharodiya Durgotsab”.
Attired in traditional dresses, the Hindu community people of all ages, including girls and women, thronged Mahiganj Ramakrishna Ashram in festive moods to observe Kumari Puja through performing their due religious rituals.
Talking to BSS, President of the district unit of Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad Advocate Rothish Chandra Bhowmick said Goddess Durga is worshipped in various forms including “Kumari”, a pure-hearted girl and the virgin form of the deity.
The Hindu community on Thursday observed Maha Ashtami through performing the day’s main attraction Kumari Puja in the Sylhet city as elsewhere in the Sylhet district.
The Kumari Puja started at Ramkrishono Missoin Mondir in the city’s Kotwali thana at around 12 noon.
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.
13-year-old Bornali Chowdhury, daughter of local businessman Anjon Chowdhury and a class seven student of city’s Agrogami Girls’ High School, was worshipped as Kumari.
Devotees of all ages offered flowers at the feet of the Kumari adorning 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 were given enchanting looks with colourful designs and lights while additional members of law enforcement agency have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival
Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP), district police and Puja committee source said, there was no report of any untoward incidents centering the Durga puja celebrations.
SMP sources said a five to seven-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at every Puja Mandap and adequate numbers of law enforcer including, Armed Police Battalion members have already been deployed in all areas where members of Hindhu community reside to maintain law and order.
Dupchanchia(Bogra) Correspondent adds: The Deputy Commissioner Asraf Uddin and Superintendent of Police Asaduzzaman have visited Taunbaroary puja mondops of Dupchanchia municipality area to ensure the peaceful law and order situation here in Bogra district on the day of Nabomi. The Hindu religious people are celebrating enthusiastically the greatest festival of Durga puja across the upazila
Puja Ujjapon parishad upazila unit source said, a total 37 puja mondops in the upazila are decorated simultaneously satisfying the goddess Durga across the district.
During the time of government visiting additional deputy commissioner Khorshed Alam, Dupchanchia municipality mayor Belal Hossain, secretary of Awami-league upazila unit Alhaj Fazlul Haque, president of press club Golam Faque, journalist Emdadul Haque, Belal Hossain, Taofiq Alam and councilor of the municipality were present there.
President of Puja Ujjapon Parishad Dupchanchia upazila unit Asim Kumar Das said, the Durga Puja in the district is being celebrated with due solemnity, fervour and ceremony. All are set to kick off the Puja through the mentioned mandaps in the district. Aiming at celebrating the Puja with most perfection and religious chastity, the devotee are busy in bow down their heads before the statues of Durga at the different places of the areas, he added.
BSS from Rangpur reports: Tens of thousands of the Hindu community people celebrated the “Kumari Puja” on the Mahaashtami yesterday here in a befitting manner worshiping Goddess Durga in the Kumari form with due religious fervour.
The Hindu devotees thronged the puja mandaps to observe Kumari Puja, one of the most significant programmes during five-day celebrations of their greatest religious festivity of universal “Sharodiya Durgotsab”.
Attired in traditional dresses, the Hindu community people of all ages, including girls and women, thronged Mahiganj Ramakrishna Ashram in festive moods to observe Kumari Puja through performing their due religious rituals.
Talking to BSS, President of the district unit of Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad Advocate Rothish Chandra Bhowmick said Goddess Durga is worshipped in various forms including “Kumari”, a pure-hearted girl and the virgin form of the deity.
