Preparations afoot to celebrate Durga Puja

Bagerhat Correspondent :

Brisk preparations are afoot here to celebrate 5-day long Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of Bengali Hindu community on October 20 (Wednesday) in Bagerhat district town and it’s all the nine Upazilas with religious fervour, gaiety, solemnity, peaceful and happy atmosphere.

According to the belief of the Hindu community, this year Goddess Durga will appear on the earth by horse and will leave the same by boat.

It is learnt from a source of Bagerhat district unit of Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad (BPUP), as many as 642 Puja Mandops (pandels) are being erected in Bagerhat district town and it’s all the nine Upazilas.

The number of Puja Mandops in the district town is 13 while the number of Upazila wise Puja Madnops is 154 in Chitalmari, 116 in Bagerhat Sadar, 75 in Morrelganj, 85 in Mollahat, 62 in Fakirhat, 43 in Kachua, 47 in Rampal, 38 in Mongla and 23 in Sharankhola. The highest number of Puija Mandaps, 154 in number, is being erected in Chitalmari Upazila.

Every year the biggest Puja Mandop of the district as well as in the country is being erected at Shikdarbari within Khanpur Union Parishad under Sadar Upazila with the initiative of a business magnate named Lyton Shikdar like the past years.