Durga Puja Celebrations Concludes in Meghalaya

Durga Puja Celebrations Concludes in Meghalaya

Staff Correspondent

Shillong: Durga Puja celebrations culminated in Shillong on Tuesday. The festive spirits of the people brought back the peaceful and harmonious ambience of the city. Throughout the four-day affair, Shillong’s main hubs had virtually turned into an arena of joy and frolic for the locals and the visitors from outside the State who had poured in scores.

For the locals, it’s more of pandal hopping till late in the night while the tourist used every opportunity to go for a sightseeing tour before venturing into the mood of late night puja celebrations in the hill city.

“We came from Kolkata to get a feel of the hills and Durga Puja celebrations and it was an ecstatic experience”, stated Bhudhadeb, a tourist who was part of immersion party near Polo. Another tourist spoke about his family’s joy in Shillong, “free from the hassles of the crowded puja mandap in West Bengal”, even as he spoke about the hospitality shown by the residents of Shillong.

It was a choc-a bloc throughout the thoroughfares of the passage to Polo due to restrictions by the traffic police for better traffic management and it generated positive results as far as immersion of idols is concerned. In Shillong alone, there were 75 community durga puja committees which completed the final rituals today. Altogether, there are 242 community Durga communities throughout the State.

Besides Shillong, reports coming from the other districts redefine the festive spirits of the people who completed the four-day festival in a joyful manner.

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