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DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 18, 2004: Hindu community in Bangladesh has decided to scale down the festivity and limit the playing of musical instrument during the Durga Puja to maintain communal harmony in the country as Muslim’s Ramadan coincides this year with the Puja celebration. Leaders of Bangladesh Puja Celebration Council at a press conference on Monday, a day ahead of the weeklong Hindu festival begins, said that they have already asked district-level Puja celebration committees to refrain from using loudspeakers and musical instrument during the time of Iftar and prayer (in the evening) and Sehri (in the dawn). “Playing of dhak (drum) could be used for a short period during the moments of worship to the Goddess Durga and during the Sandhya Arati,” said general secretary of the council Joyanta Sen Dipu.



The greatest religious festival of Hindu community, Durga Puja begins Tuesday. Around 17,500 Puja Mandavs have been set up throughout the country, including 139 in the capital, Puja officials said. They alleged that some images of Goddess Durga were damaged at some places as the government “had not taken adequate preventive measures.” “The administration knows who are involved in damaging the images of the deity Durga, but they were not nabbed yet despite repeated assurances,” on of the Hindu community leaders told reporters. The government, earlier, said that it would deploy adequate security forces around the mandavs. The Hindu leaders said they have set scheduled for immersion of Goddess Durga to avoid any untoward incidents. They fixed the time for immersion and procession from 2pm to 5pm, 6pm to 7.30pm and after 9pm on October 23.

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