The Durga Puja, biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, begins with the incarnation (Bodhon) of the Goddess Durga at temples across the country on Sunday.
Preparations for celebrating the greatest festival of the Hindu community in all the pandals have nearly been completed.
The five-day festival starts with 'Bodhon' of the Goddess Durga Sunday while 'Amontron' and 'Adhibas' of the Goddess Durga will be held on Monday marking the Shashthi. The festival will come to an end with the emersion of the images of the Goddess Durga in the nearby rivers and water bodies on October 23.
Centring the festival, devotees and artisans are busy taking last moment preparations and tastefully decorating the temples and pandals across the country.
President of the central committee of Bangladesh Puja Utjapan Parishad Kajal Debnath told BSS that a total of 29,074 pandals have been erected across the country including 223 in the capital city this year to celebrate the Durga Puja, a BSS report said.
A mood of festivities persists among the devotees irrespective of ages marking the festival while adequate security measures had already been taken in the puja pandals across the country.
Throughout the day on Monday to mark the Shashthi, recitation of the verses from the Holy Chandi and blowing of conch shells (Shankha) and beating of dhak- dhols (drums) will be heard in temples and pandals in the city.
Draped in new dresses, a large numbers of devotees irrespective of ages will throng the city pandals, particularly at Dhakeshwari National Temple, and offer prayers before the Goddess Durga seeking divine blessings for peace, prosperity and welfare of the country and its people.
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