Published on 12:00 AM, January 31, 2020

Country a role model for communal harmony

CJ tells Saraswati Puja event at SC

Amid festivity, the Hindu community celebrated Saraswati Puja yesterday. People gather at Jagannath Hall premises of Dhaka University, where students of almost every department set up mandaps -- the major attraction of the celebrations every year. Photo: Prabir Das
Staff Correspondent

Bangladesh is a role model for communal harmony, said Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday.

Every year, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) organises programmes to celebrate Saraswati Puja where all the judges of the Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court are invited and they attend the religious event, he said.

The chief justice was speaking at a programme organised by the SCBA to celebrate the puja in its auditorium on the SC premises in Dhaka.

Devotees offer food (prasad) to pay obeisance to the goddess of knowledge, wisdom and culture at a mandap in Sylhet. Photo: Sheikh Nasir
Anjali (flower petals) being offered to Saraswati at a temple in Barishal. Photo: Titu Das

Mahmud Hossain said the president and secretary to the SCBA extended their full support to successfully arrange Saraswati Puja every year.

“I hope they would continue their support in the years to come,” he said.

Many judges of the High Court Division; Attorney General Mahbubey Alam; Bangladesh Bar Council’s Vice Chairman Advocate Muhammad Yusuf Hossain Humayun; SCBA President Advocate AM Amin Uddin; Advocate Abdul Matin Khasru MP; former SCBA president Advocate Zainul Abedin and SCBA Secretary Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, among others, attended the event.

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