Kumari puja in Jalpaiguri

JALPAIGURI, Oct.7: Organising for the past 10 years, the ‘Senpara Sarbojanin Durga Puja’ (Post Office Road) held Kumari puja today. Celebrating its 58th year of Durga puja, the community puja is the only of its kind to hold Kumari puja. “Kumari puja is an event performed on ‘Maha Ashtami.’ Ours is the only community puja in Jalpaiguri,” claimed the organisation's secretary Mr Rana Sengupta. The priest, Mr Partho Bhattacharya, said: “Kumari puja is a symbolic of Durga Puja. In it, we worship a girl child as the symbolic representation of Durga. This year we worshiped Adrija Mukherjee (6) a little girl of Jalpaiguri. She was worshiped as ‘Uma’ (another name of Durga).”In addition to Kumari puja, the organisers are leaving no stone unturned to attract people. “This year we have selected a village Pathsala (school) as the theme of our pandal. We have also highlighted Tagore's Sahaj Path, inside the Puja pandal. Significantly, artists who are hearing impaired have etched the Sahaj Path inscriptions in the pandal. We have provided them space inside the pandal so that they can display handicrafts prepared by them,” said Mr Pradip Chakraborty, joint secretary of the Puja committee. Kumari puja was also held at the Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Jalpaiguri. n SNS

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