Bijoy Mela abuzz with visitors

The month-long "Muktijuddher Bijoy Mela", which started on December 1 at Outer Stadium in Kazir Dewri in the port city, is now abuzz with visitors.

It's the fair's 34th edition this year. Initiated in 1989, the fair's been held here every year since.

Following the initiative, now the prestigious traditional fair is held across the country, said organisers.

Bijoy Mela usually encompasses numerous stalls exhibiting a wide array of local products, eateries, entertainment shows and a Bijoy Mancha that sets the platform for conducting programmes reminiscing the Liberation War period and War Heroes.

Reminiscing about the initiative, Faruk-e-Azam Bir Protik, convener of the first Bijoy Mela in 1989, said, "A bunch of youths, who were born on December 16, 1971, inaugurated the first Bijoy Mela on December 11, 1989. At that fair, Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam was given reception."

While visiting the fair on Saturday, it was seen that different  kinds of stalls were selling bags, ladies', children's wears, sandals, ceramics, plastic and aluminum products, toys, cosmetics, home appliances, jewellery, shawls, cottage products, doormats, showpieces, perfumes and what not.

People from all strata of society from both city and different upazilas come to this fair as they get almost all the household products here.