Chittagong Bureau :
The Hindu community on Sunday celebrated “Mahaashtami” through performing the day’s main attraction “Kumari Puja” in the port city as elsewhere in the district.
The Kumari Puja started at Shantoneshwari Matri 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 Kumari Puja venue to welcome and worship goddess Kumari at the podium.
Eleven-year-old Binota Dey, daughter of Dr Bashu Dev Dey and Dr Rubi Dey, a class four student of city’s Patharghata primary school, was worshipped as Kumari.
Devotees of all ages offered flowers on 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) was distributed and Anjali (flowers) showered among the devotees present there. All puja pandels were decorated with mesmerizing attraction with colourful designs and lights while additional members of law enforcement agency have been deployed in all puja pandels in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), district police and Puja committee sources said there was no report of any untoward incidents centering the Durga puja celebrations.
CMP sources said a six to eight-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at each Puja Mandap and adequate numbers of law enforcer including Armed Police Battalions have already been deployed at all Hindhu populated regions.
Besides, district and Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have already opened separate control rooms at their respective headquarters to monitor the situation of 251 puja mandaps in the city and district.
The Hindu community on Sunday celebrated “Mahaashtami” through performing the day’s main attraction “Kumari Puja” in the port city as elsewhere in the district.
The Kumari Puja started at Shantoneshwari Matri 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 Kumari Puja venue to welcome and worship goddess Kumari at the podium.
Eleven-year-old Binota Dey, daughter of Dr Bashu Dev Dey and Dr Rubi Dey, a class four student of city’s Patharghata primary school, was worshipped as Kumari.
Devotees of all ages offered flowers on 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) was distributed and Anjali (flowers) showered among the devotees present there. All puja pandels were decorated with mesmerizing attraction with colourful designs and lights while additional members of law enforcement agency have been deployed in all puja pandels in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), district police and Puja committee sources said there was no report of any untoward incidents centering the Durga puja celebrations.
CMP sources said a six to eight-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at each Puja Mandap and adequate numbers of law enforcer including Armed Police Battalions have already been deployed at all Hindhu populated regions.
Besides, district and Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have already opened separate control rooms at their respective headquarters to monitor the situation of 251 puja mandaps in the city and district.
