Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated across the national Capital with fervour and gaiety as people offered prayers at mosques and thronged markets in colourful cloths. After a month of fasting, people, dressed in traditional finery, celebrated the festival which symbolises peace and brotherhood.
People in large number offered namaz at mosques and idgahs, including Jama Masjid and Ferozshah Kotla. They shopped and tried different delicacies in and around Jama Masjid, Ballimaran and Matia Mahal areas.
Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi offered namaz at Dargah Panja Sharif, Kashmiri Gate here.
"Today offered Namaz at Dargah Panja Sharif, Kashmiri Gate in New Delhi on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr and prayed for peace, prosperity, safety and harmony in the country. #EidUlFitr," Naqvi tweeted.
Later, a number of BJP leaders and Union Ministers, including Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal visited Naqvi's residence.
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood, who was also the Pakistan's High Commissioner to India prior to his elevation, offered Eid prayers at the historic Jama Masjid here.