Assam: Tezpur all set to celebrate Durga Puja

TEZPUR: People in and around the historic Tezpur town are all set to celebrate Durga Puja with great fervour. Tezpur and its outskirts have been wearing a festive look since the day of Mahalaya.

In the wee hours of the day, hundreds of people came out to the streets and went to Jahajghat and Ganeshghat taking out a huge religious rally to mark Mahalaya, considered as an important pre-Puja event. Several places, including Bhairabi, besides other domestic and community puja spots in Tezpur town vibrated with chanting of Vedic mantras from midnight till morning to welcome Goddess Durga to earth.

This year, as per the report of the district administration, Durga Puja will be celebrated by over 150 puja committees here. Like in the previous years, the people this time will again witness Goddess Durga at the Usha Nagar Yubak Sangha Puja in traditional Assamese attire, while the Bhairab Nagar Durga Bari Puja celebration committee will reflect the historic Tezpur city in its pandal. Considered as the first family puja of the then undivided Darrang district, performed by the Mukherjee family near Tezpur Police Station here, it has stepped into its 157th year.

Likewise, the historic family pujas of Gangacharan Bhattacharya of Kolibari, Gangaram Das of Tol Gereki area, the 74-year-old Durga Puja of noted freedom fighter Mohadev Sharma (who started the puja inside Tezpur Jail during the Quit India Movement when he was jailed), the 25-year-old Durga Puja of Marwari Durga Puja committee will attract the people of the town with unique decorations and themes.

Besides this, the Rudrapal Samittee Durga Puja, the community puja performed jointly by the Bengali and Assamese people which has been going on since 1895 at the Bengali Theatre Hall, the Ban Theatre Durga Puja that started in 1909, the Kamrupia Sanatan Dharma Mandali Puja that has been celebrated since 1928, the old Ban theatre Durga Puja at Kolibari, Dipota Kendryia Natya Mandir’s 105-year-old Durga Puja and Milonpur Durga Puja committee have completed all preparations. The Sonitpur district administration has urged all concerned, including the puja committees and the common citizens, to extend their cooperation to the administration so that no untoward incident takes place during the festival.

Talking to The Sentinel, Additional SP (Crime) Birinchi Kumar Borah informed that all security arrangements have been put in place.

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