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Five-day Durga Puja begins tomorrow
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
DHAKA, Oct 19, 2012 (BSS)- The five-day Durga Puja, biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, beings tomorrow with the 'Abahan' and 'Bodhon' (incarnation) of the Goddess of strength, courage, peace and enlightenment at temples in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country.
"The five-day festival inaugurates on Sashthi with 'Kalparambha' in the morning and 'Bodhon', 'Amantran' and 'Adhibas' of the Goddess Durga in the evening tomorrow, when recitation from the verses of holy Chandi will be held throughout the day," Niranjan Moharaj, assistant secretary of Dhaka Ramkrishna Mission and Moth told BSS today.
In his greetings to the Hindu community on the eve of the festival, President Zillur Rahman, in a message, said religious functions used to play a vital role in creating mutual sympathy and unity among the people of the country.
"Bangladesh is a glaring instance of communal harmony in the world," he said hoping that everybody in the country will contribute from his/her respective position to national development maintaining continuity of communal harmony.
"We all hope that the Sharadiya Durgotsab would consolidate further the bonds of friendship and fraternity of all the communities," the President added in his message.
Conveying her heartiest felicitations to members of the Hindu community on the occasion of the Durga Puja festival, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, said the Durga Puja is not only the festival of the Hindu community alone but has turned, by this time, into a festival irrespective of communities.
"The main characteristic of the Sharadiya Durgotsab is to ruination of the evil forces and prayer for truth and beauty. Bangladesh is a safe haven of people irrespective of religious belief, creed and colour. Our constitution enshrines equal rights for people of all faiths and colour," she said.
The Prime Minister hoped that the Bangalee's 1000-year-old bonds of traditional communal harmony would be retained with united efforts of all to translate into reality Bangabandhu's dream for establishing a golden Bangla.
Nirmal Chatterjee, general secretary of Dhaka City Sarbajonin Puja Committee informed BSS that a total 28,000 puja pandals have been erected for Durga Puja across the country. The figure was 27,300 last year.
In Dhaka City alone, the puja will be held at 201 pandals, the number was 196 last year. The puja pandal at Dhakeswari National Temple is the main attraction for the Hindu devotees in the city, where apart from worshipping the Goddess Durga, devotional song sessions, distribution of clothes and Mohaprosad, 'Arati' competition and voluntary blood donation programmes will also be organised.
Attractive and tastefully decorated puja pandals were erected at Ramkrishna Mission and Moth, Ramna Kalimondir O Anandamoyee Ashram, Barodeshwari Kalimata Mondir, Siddheswari Kalimata Mondir, Bholanath Mondir Ashram, Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University, Rishipara Gautam Mondir, Gulshan-Banani Sarbojonin Puja Parishad, Kalabagan playground, Shankhari Bazar, Tantibazar, Panitola, North Brooke Hall Road, Banagram, South Maishundi, Farashganj and other parts of the Old city in observance of the festival.
In a message today, Bangladesh Puja Utjapan Parishad President Kanutosh Mazumder, General Secretary Manindra Kumar Nath, Dhaka City Sarbojonin Puja Committee President Basudeb Dhar, General Secretary Nirmal Chatterjee, Bangladesh Hindu- Bouddha- Christian Oikya Parishad Presidents Maj Gen (Retd) CR Datta (Bir Uttam), Advocate Shiril Shikder and Ushatan Talukdar and General Secretary Advocate Rana Dasgupta conveyed greetings to the members of all the communities on the occasion of the holy Durga Puja.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
DHAKA, Oct 19, 2012 (BSS)- The five-day Durga Puja, biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, beings tomorrow with the 'Abahan' and 'Bodhon' (incarnation) of the Goddess of strength, courage, peace and enlightenment at temples in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country.
"The five-day festival inaugurates on Sashthi with 'Kalparambha' in the morning and 'Bodhon', 'Amantran' and 'Adhibas' of the Goddess Durga in the evening tomorrow, when recitation from the verses of holy Chandi will be held throughout the day," Niranjan Moharaj, assistant secretary of Dhaka Ramkrishna Mission and Moth told BSS today.
In his greetings to the Hindu community on the eve of the festival, President Zillur Rahman, in a message, said religious functions used to play a vital role in creating mutual sympathy and unity among the people of the country.
"Bangladesh is a glaring instance of communal harmony in the world," he said hoping that everybody in the country will contribute from his/her respective position to national development maintaining continuity of communal harmony.
"We all hope that the Sharadiya Durgotsab would consolidate further the bonds of friendship and fraternity of all the communities," the President added in his message.
Conveying her heartiest felicitations to members of the Hindu community on the occasion of the Durga Puja festival, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in her message, said the Durga Puja is not only the festival of the Hindu community alone but has turned, by this time, into a festival irrespective of communities.
"The main characteristic of the Sharadiya Durgotsab is to ruination of the evil forces and prayer for truth and beauty. Bangladesh is a safe haven of people irrespective of religious belief, creed and colour. Our constitution enshrines equal rights for people of all faiths and colour," she said.
The Prime Minister hoped that the Bangalee's 1000-year-old bonds of traditional communal harmony would be retained with united efforts of all to translate into reality Bangabandhu's dream for establishing a golden Bangla.
Nirmal Chatterjee, general secretary of Dhaka City Sarbajonin Puja Committee informed BSS that a total 28,000 puja pandals have been erected for Durga Puja across the country. The figure was 27,300 last year.
In Dhaka City alone, the puja will be held at 201 pandals, the number was 196 last year. The puja pandal at Dhakeswari National Temple is the main attraction for the Hindu devotees in the city, where apart from worshipping the Goddess Durga, devotional song sessions, distribution of clothes and Mohaprosad, 'Arati' competition and voluntary blood donation programmes will also be organised.
Attractive and tastefully decorated puja pandals were erected at Ramkrishna Mission and Moth, Ramna Kalimondir O Anandamoyee Ashram, Barodeshwari Kalimata Mondir, Siddheswari Kalimata Mondir, Bholanath Mondir Ashram, Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University, Rishipara Gautam Mondir, Gulshan-Banani Sarbojonin Puja Parishad, Kalabagan playground, Shankhari Bazar, Tantibazar, Panitola, North Brooke Hall Road, Banagram, South Maishundi, Farashganj and other parts of the Old city in observance of the festival.
In a message today, Bangladesh Puja Utjapan Parishad President Kanutosh Mazumder, General Secretary Manindra Kumar Nath, Dhaka City Sarbojonin Puja Committee President Basudeb Dhar, General Secretary Nirmal Chatterjee, Bangladesh Hindu- Bouddha- Christian Oikya Parishad Presidents Maj Gen (Retd) CR Datta (Bir Uttam), Advocate Shiril Shikder and Ushatan Talukdar and General Secretary Advocate Rana Dasgupta conveyed greetings to the members of all the communities on the occasion of the holy Durga Puja.
