Huge crowd go pandal hopping in and around Agartala city, ‘Durga Puja’ spirit in full swing

Amidst high security arrangements across the state for peaceful observance of the festivities of Durga Puja, so far, no untoward incident has been reported from any part of Tripura.

Large number of devotees thronged major puja pandals across Agartala since the day of ‘Maha Shasti’. Similar scenes were noticed on the day of ‘Maha Saptami’.

This year Durga Puja is being celebrated at 2900 places in Tripura including above 500 Pujas in West Tripura district and in Agartala and its outskirts. Like previous years, elaborate Police arrangements have been made in the state to ensure peaceful celebration of the festival.

However, on the auspicious day of ‘Maha Saptami on Saturday and ‘Maha Asthami’ on Sunday, the worship of Goddess Durga was performed with religious pomp and gaiety.

As per tradition a huge crowd of pandal hoppers took to the streets of Agartala and areas around it from evening to have a glimpse of images of ‘Devi Durga’, her retinue and the decoration in the pandal. Apart from the city dwellers many people had come from sub divisional and district towns as also from neighbouring districts of Assam and clandestinely from Bangladesh also. The street vendors dealing in fast food made big and fast bucks by feeding their products to ‘Puja’ revellers.

Most of the ‘Puja’ revellers and pandal hoppers visit famous Agartala pandals and most of the pandals are based on themes.