Urs venue not being shifted from Farmgate despite DNCC notice
Kutub Bag Darbar Sharif Committee has decided not to shift the venue of its annual Urs Sharif (religious congregation) from Anwara Park of the capital's Farmgate next year, defying an official notice from the city corporation.
Shafiqul Alam, publicity secretary of the committee, said, “Dhaka North City Corporation authorities placed an objection to us for holding this Urs. We have told them that we will consider shifting the venue next year. But we didn't take any final decision yet to shift our programme from Anwara Park,” he said.
While informed of the DNCC's letter and a public notice hung at the park, Shafiqul said they might hold the Urs at any place inside or outside of the city next year.
Talking to The Daily Star on Sunday, he also said they had paid Tk 65,000 to the government to hold this year's Urs on January 26- 27.
The organisers of the Urs virtually took over the public spaces in the beginning of January to erect enormous marquees, five grand arch gates and a regal stage to deliver sermons to devotees, who turned up in thousands from across the country.
Thousands of devotees stayed overnight in the marquees. The marquee set up on Anwara Park was meant for women devotees.
Shahsufi Hazrat Jakir Shah, the pir (a spiritual guru) of Kutub Bagh Darbar Sharif, held the Urs caring little for children's access to the ground and putting people in difficulty for a month.
The Darbar Sharif has been holding similar congregations at the T&T playground and Rajdhani High School ground in Farmgate and Indira Road area since 2008.
However, SM Ajior Rahman, zonal executive officer of DNCC, told this correspondent that the Darbar committee submitted a written letter on January 22 and informed them that they would shift the venue from the park next year.
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