The Sanaton community on Thursday celebrated ‘Saraswati’ Puja amid huge festivity with due religious fervor everywhere in all eight districts of Rangpur division. The Puja mandaps, mandirs and educational institutions were colorfully decorated and thousands of devotees of all ages thronged there since the morning to seek blessings of ‘Devi Saraswati’, the Goddess of knowledge, reports BSS.
Thousands of the Suntan community students of schools, colleges and universities, attired in traditional colourful dresses, offered special prayers and observed fasting as per ritual of the religious festival to seek knowledge from ‘Devi Saraswati’.
In Rangpur city, colourful images of ‘Devi Saraswati’, symbolising a graceful woman, were erected at different Puja mandaps, mandirs, educational institutions and makeshift places for worship of the devotees.
The ‘Saraswati’ Puja was celebrated at Dharmoshava Ashram, Sammya Sangha in Mahiganj, Laksmi Narayan Zeu Shiva Mandir, Sree Sree Paresh Nath Mandir, Kalibari Mandir.
, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur Medical College, Begum Rokeya Government College, Rangpur Technical School, Carmichael College, Rangpur Technical Training Centre, Lions School and College, Samaj Kallyan
Biddya Bithi, Koilash Ranjan High School, Afan Ullah High School, Mahiganj College, Government Teachers’ Training College, Zila School, Dental College and other educational institutions.
The biggest celebrations of the Saraswati Puja were held at Rangpur Carmichael College where thousands of students thronged since morning as nearly 7,000 out of about 25,000 students of the institution belongs to the Sanaton community.
The Saraswati Puja was also celebrated at Guptapara Puja Mandap, Mahiganj Puja Mandap, Mulatol Puja Mandap, Paulpara Puja Mandap, Lalbag Puja Mandap, Modern Mour Puja Mandap, Tazhat Puja Mandap, Boiragipara Puja Mandap, Machuapara Puja Mandap, Kallyanpara Puja Mandap, Shalban Puja Mandap, Burima Mandir, Rangpur Polytechnic Institute and other places in the city.
The Saraswati Puja was celebrated through offering ‘Devi Aradhona’, ‘Puspoanjoli’, ‘archanas’, ‘anjolis’, ‘aratis’, ‘Prashad’ distribution, ‘Arati competitions’ religious discussions, different competitions, cultural functions, drama and prize distribution.
High officials of the divisional and district administrations, police administrations, heads of different educational institutions, Acting President of district unit of Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad Ajoy Prasad Babon, its General Secretary Dhiman Bhattacharya and other leaders observed celebrations of the ‘Saraswati’ Puja at different Puja mandaps and educational institutions.
Similar reports of celebrations of ‘Saraswati’ Puja with huge enthusiasm have been received here from Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Nilphamari districts in Rangpur division.
