Durga Puja begins Tuesday

The Durga Puja, biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, begins with the incarnation of the Goddess Durga at temples across the country Tuesday.
The five-day festival starts with 'Bodhon', 'Amontron' and 'Adhibas' of the Goddess Durga Tuesday 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 04 (Saturday), according to a news agency.
Centring the festival, devotees and artisans are busy taking last moment preparations and tastefully decorating the temples and pandals across the country.
A total of nearly 28,458 pandals have been erected across the country including 218 in the capital city this year to celebrate the Durga Puja. A mood of festivities persists among the devotees irrespective of ages marking the festival.
In separate messages, President Md Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and leader of the opposition Begum Raushan Ershad conveyed greetings to the members of the country's Hindu community marking the festival.
Security has been beefed up in the Puja pandals throughout the country including in the capital city with the deployment of additional squads of Ansars, police, RAB and other law enforcers for peaceful celebration of the festival.
On the eve of the festival, leaders of Bangladesh Puja Utjapan Parishad, Mohanagar Sarbojonin Puja Committee and Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad conveyed Puja greetings to the members of all communities of the country.