Desk Report
Publish: 10 Oct 2021, 05:01 pm
Durga Puja || Photo: Collected
Durga Puja, the biggest religious
festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will begin tomorrow with holding Maha
Shasthi puja at temples across the country amid festivity and religious fervor
maintaining health guidelines.
The five-day-long Durga Puja
celebration will begin with the unveiling of the face of the deity and
Kalparambho on the day of Maha Sashthi on that day and it will end on October
15 with the immersion of the idols.
The incarnation (Bodhon) of the Goddess Durga
is going to happen today ahead of the puja on the day of Maha Panchami.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina today felicitated the Hindu community in separate
messages on the occasion of Durga Puja.
Maha Saptami puja will be
performed on October 12, Maha Ashtami on October 13 and Maha Nabami Puja on
October 14 (Thursday). The Mahalaya, the auspicious occasion heralding the
advent of goddess Durga, was celebrated on Wednesday last (October 6).
Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad
leaders urged all devotees to properly maintain health guidelines and
directives were issued by the government in the wake of the global pandemic
during the Durga Puja celebration.
In Dhaka city, the main puja
mandaps are Dhakeshwari National Temple, Ramkrishna Mission and Math,
Kalabagan, Banani, Shakhari Bazar and Ramna Kali Mandir.
Durga Puja signifies the birth of
Durga with the blessings of gods, as collective energy, to fight the demon
king Mahishasura.
Exquisitely crafted and decorated
life-size clay idols of the goddess Durga depicting her slaying the demon
Mahishasura are set up at temples and Durga Puja pandals.
These idols are then worshiped
for five days and immersed in the river on the fifth day. The puja is performed
in temples, homes and in the public, featuring temporary stage decorations.
The celebrations also include
other major deities of Hinduism such as goddess Lakshmi (goddess of wealth,
prosperity), Saraswati (goddess of knowledge and music), Ganesha (god of good
beginnings) and Kartikeya (god of war).
Durga Puja will be celebrated at
32,118 puja mandaps across the country this year while the puja will be
arranged at 238 puja mandaps in the capital Dhaka, according to the statement of
Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad.
Earlier at a meeting on security
measures during the celebration of Durga Puja, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal
said that law enforcement agencies will take tight security measures for
ensuring peaceful celebration of the Durga Puja.
Special steps would be taken,
including deployment of police forces along with members of Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB), Ansar-VDP and community police to ensure peaceful celebration
of Durga Puja festivity, he said. (BSS)
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