Saraswati Puja being celebrated across country amid festivity

The country’s Hindu community today is celebrating Saraswati Puja, worshipping the goddess of knowledge, music, art and culture, amid much fanfare, festivity and religious fervour.

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages, have greeted the members of the Hindu community on the occasion of the Saraswati Puja. Congratulating all the members of the Hindu community, they said that Bangladesh is a country of communal harmony and people of all religions have been living together in this land for thousands of years.

According to the Hindu faith, goddess Saraswati represents power, creativity and inspiration and presents herself when the weather is pleasant and nature is in its full grandeur, reports BSS.

Saraswati Puja, or Basant Panchami, falls on the fifth ‘Tithi’ of the Bengali month of Maagh each year when Hindus worship goddess Saraswati to mark the coming of spring.

Major Hindu temples, schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions are celebrating the festival with traditional gaiety and religious fervour.

The most gorgeous Saraswati Puja has been arranged on the premises of Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University where a huge number of devotees and crowds have thronged to perform the religious rituals and visit the pandals circled on the playground of the university’s largest dormitory.

At the same time, the puja is also being celebrated at Dhakeshwari National Temple, Ram Krishna Mission, Jagannath University, Siddheswari Temple, Supreme Court premises, Farashganj, Shakhari Bazar, Tanti Bazar and different other places in old Dhaka, Banani, Dhaka College, Eden Girls’ College, BUET, Ramna Kali Mandir and Maa Anandamayi Ashram, Tejgaon College, Stamford University and different educational institutions in the city.