The Maha Saptami Puja was held at various temples and community prayer venues with much gaiety and fervour on Friday.
Since morning, devotees were witnessed visiting various temples and community prayer venues including Karanpur Durga Puja venue, Bengali library Durga Puja venue, Hathibarkala Durga Puja venue, Junior Club premises, Raipur for offering prayers to Goddess Gurga. The Durga Puja Committee, Raipur additional general secretary Tapas Chakraborty said that the Durga Puja celebrations are being held at the Junior Club premises, Ordnance Factory Estate, Raipur, Dehradun since Thursday with involvement of thousands of people.
On Friday the day began with the Maha Saptami Puja in the morning, followed by pushpaanjali and bhog during the day. After that, cultural programmes were also held. Children presented a group dance as a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore. A play ‘Refund” under the direction of Kailash Kandwal was also held. The attraction of the night was a presentation by the group “Shiv Ranjani”, under the direction of Sudhir Mukherjee and Anjana Mukherjee.