Durga Puja ends today
Staff Correspondent -
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The five-day celebration of Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of Hindu, will end today through immersion of the idols of Devi Durga in the water.
Devotees will bid a solemn farewell to their deity Durga and her children Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik and Ganesh through immersion after inviting her to return next year.
After worshipping the Mahadashami, the final day of the celebration, at different puja mandaps, devotees will bring out Bijoya Dashami procession carrying Durga and her children to riverbanks in the evening.
In the capital, thousands of devotees are expected to join the traditional procession scheduled at 4:00pm from Palashi intersection near Dhakeshwari Temple, the national temple. The procession will march through different city streets and end at Waizghat in old town before the immersion.
Out of 191 puja mandaps in the capital, some 70 idols are likely to be immersed in the Buriganga river and the rest in other rivers around the city, said Nirmol Chatarjee, joint secretary to the Mahanagar Sarbojannin Puja Committee.
According to Hindu belief, Goddess Durga, along with her children, sets on a journey for Kailash, her husband's abode, on Dashami.