Eid shopping gets momentum in Rajshahi city

With hardly a week is left for Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, Rajshahi city has been caught by 'Eid shopping fever' with modern and traditional shopping malls bustling with shoppers from all walks of life. Thousands of people are seen purchasing items of their own choice with huge enthusiasm despite significant rise in prices of all kinds of clothes than the last year. Movement of the shoppers has created huge traffic congestion in the major towns. Shop owners said sales were showing an upward trend since the weekend as people especially private and public service holders have already received their Eid bonuses. Salesmen of different markets, footpaths, makeshift sales centers are passing busy time from morning to midnight as people of all ages gathered there to buy their dresses and other items to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, sources added, according to BSS.