FBD Desk:

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) have sought wholehearted cooperation from all quarters for successful and peaceful celebrations of the forthcoming Durga Puja amid the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic situation.

RMP high ranking officials came up with the call while addressing a law and order meeting related to the Durga Puja, the largest religious festival for the Hindu Community, at its police line conference hall today.

Apart from the RMP officials, leaders and members of puja udjapon committees, Hindu Kallyan Trust, public representatives and others concerned joined the meeting.

With RMP Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddique in the chair, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Additional Commissioners Sujayet Islam and Salma Begum, Deputy Commissioners Rashidul Hassan, Sazid Hossain, Bhibhuti Bhushan Banarjee, Saiful Islam, Arefin Jewel, Abu Ahammad Al Mamun and Anirban Chakma.

Anil Kumar Sarker, Topan Kumar Sen, Prof Sujit Kumar Sarker, Alok Kumar Das, Advocate Sarat Chandra Sarker, Shyamal Kumar Ghosh, Samar Kumar Saha and Kanai Kumar Saha also spoke.

The meeting was told that the Durga Puja will be held at 87 mondaps in the RMP areas this year.

In his remarks, RMP Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddque assured of extending all possible security support to the puja celebration everywhere in the RMP areas. Already, vigilance activities have been intensified, he added.

He urged the puja committee leaders to set up closed circuit cameras in the important puja mandaps alongside metal detectors in the main entrances. There should be separate gates for male and female.

Kalam Siddique asked the officer-in-charge of the police stations to keep close coordination with the puja committee round the clock. He also gave instruction to the traffic division to enhance traffic management.

“We have to put in our level best efforts to ensure communal harmony for all faiths in each of the puja mandaps,” he added.(Source: BSS)