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SWARSWATI-PUJA-RAJSHAHI (with picture)
Swaraswati Puja celebrated in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, Feb 10, 2019 (BSS) – The Hindu community today celebrated the
Swaraswati Puja with the spirit of pursuing education and knowledge,
traditional gaiety and due religious fervour everywhere in Rajshahi division.
Puja mandaps, mandirs and a large number of educational institutions
have been colourfully decorated as hundreds of devotees seek blessings since
morning from the `Devi Swaraswati’, the Goddess of knowledge.
The devotees, especially the students attired in colourful dresses,
offered special prayers and observed fasting as per the ritual of the
festival to seek knowledge from the Goddess Swaraswati.
In Rajshahi metropolis, a large number of images of Goddess Swaraswati,
symbolizing a graceful woman riding on a swan, were erected at different puja
mandaps, mandirs and educational institutions.
Swaraswati Puja was celebrated at Rajshahi University, Rajshahi
University of Engineering and Technology, Rajshahi College, Rajshahi Medical
College, Teachers Training College, Polytechnic Institute side by side with
different educational institutions and many other places in the city.
The celebration also included offering of Devi Aradhona, Pushpanjoli,
`archanas’, `anjolis’, `aratis’, distribution of `Prasad’, `Arati
Competitions’, cultural functions and staging of drama.
To mark the celebration, Rajshahi University Central Puja Udjapan
Parishad (RUPUP) arranged a baniarchana programme at central puja mondap
premises today. Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Rajshahi AK Mishra was
present there.
RU Vice-chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan and Pro-VCs Prof Ananda Kumar Shaha
and Prof Chowdhuury Jakaria addressed the meeting as chief and special guests
respectively with RUPUP President Prof Biswanath Shikder in the chair.
Indian Assistant High Commissioner AK Mishra, RU Registrar Prof Abdul
Bari, Proctor Prof Lutfor Rahman, Professor Emeritus Arun Kumar Basak and
RUPUP General Secretary Prof Pronob Kumar Panday also spoke.
Similar reports on celebration of Swaraswati Puja were received here
from Chapainawabganj, Natore, Naogaon, Bogra, Joypurhat, Pabna and Sirajganj
districts in Rajshahi division.
BSS/AH/FI/ 1540 hrs