Kolkata :

Durga puja — the biggest festival of Bengal ended on Friday, as this time the festival is of three days according to the almanac and the Bijaya Dashamibeing on Friday many of the pujaorganisers went for immersion of the idols.

However, most of the community pujaorganisers in Bengal will prefer to go for immersion on Sunday and this time there is a ban on immersion on Monday till 8 pm for Id-u- Zoha.

Until Friday evening 127 idols were immersed in river Hooghly. Most of the zamindarfamilies preferred to have the immersion on Friday going by the almanac, as Dashamistarted from Friday and then there were exchange of greetings and SMSstarts pouring in.

The police have made adequate arrangements in the ghats for immersion and special attention is to prevent people from being drowned.

The year long wait for next year’s pujabegins and the community pujaorganisers have started planning for their next year to bag the best trophies being the biggest crowd pullers.

Some of the pujasorganized by Mamata Banerjee’sministers had been the top crowd pullers this year too like previous years and Suruchi Sanghahad been one on top. Suruchi Sanghais headed by housing and youth affairs minister Aroop Biswas. Again the pujaat Chetla Agraniby FrihadHakim, urban development and municipal affairs minister had been another major hit along with the pujaat Naktala Udayan Sanghaby higher education minister Parha Chatterjee.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kolkata / by Debasis Konar, TNN/ October 03rd, 2014