RAJSHAHI, Jan 30, 2020 (BSS) – People of the Hindu community today
celebrated the Saraswati Puja with the spirit of pursuing education and
knowledge, traditional gaiety and due religious fervour everywhere in the
city as well as other districts 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 Saraswati’, 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 Saraswati.
In Rajshahi city, a large number of images of Goddess Saraswati,
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 Aradhana, 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 bunny archana programme at central puja mandap
premises today.
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.
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 Saraswati Puja were received here from
Chapainawabganj, Natore, Naogaon, Bogura, Joypurhat, Pabna and Sirajganj
districts in Rajshahi division.