Although Durga Puja is the greatest religious festival among the Bengali- speaking people of the Hindu community, Magura district is an exception where with the passage of time ‘Katyani Puja’ has become the main religious festival. This puja is celebrated every year one month after the Durga Puja.
It was Shatish Chandra – a rich person of parnanduali village in Magura Sadar Upazila – who first observed this Katyani Puja about 50 years ago. Science then this Puja started to become popular among the Hindu community and now it is being celebrated with much enthusiasm and festivity for about 15 years.
Idols of Katyani Puja are similar to that of Durga Puja. Every year, thousands of enthusiastic people even from neighbouring states of India assemble in Magura to celebrate the Puja.
In observance of this Puja, tastefully decorated gates and arches are erected at different mandaps and important point of the town which is a common attraction of the festival.
A fair is also arranged every year on the occasion of Katyani, which continues for about one month.
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By: Mehedi Hasan Mithu on October 25, 2009
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