Festivities mark Eid-ul-Fitr in Ctg

CHATTOGRAM, Apr 4: The holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims, was celebrated in the port city as elsewhere in the district of Chattogram with due religious fervour and solemnity.

The district administration, Chattogram City Corporation and Islamic Foundation took programmes to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in the city and the district.

The nine-day, the longest Eid holidays, is still continuing which will end on Saturday. Meanwhile, the people started to arrive in the city. On Sunday the public and private offices will be opened.

Chattogram City Corporation (CCC), the district administration, Islamic Foundation as well as other religious organization side by side Chattogram Metropolitan and district police took elaborate programmes to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in the city and district in a disciplined and peaceful manner.

Apart from a number of big Eid congregations, more than 230 Eid congregations were held across the city.
Among the biggest ones, two Eid congregations were held at Jamiatul Falah Mosque and Anderkillah Shahi Jame -e-Mosque while two Jamaats were held at Jamiatul Falah Mosque consecutively -one at 8.30 a.m and another one at 8.45 a.m.

A large number of political leaders and social personalities had participated in the congregation at Jamiatul Falah ground that included Liberation War Affairs Adviser Faruk-e-Azam Bir Pratik , CCC Mayor Dr. Shahadat Hossain, BNP central Vice Chairman Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin, city BNP president Alhaj Ershad Ullah , city Jamaat Islami Ameer Alhaj Shah Jahan Chowdhury, former CCC mayor and JP leader Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury.

First Eid congregation at Jamiatul Falah ground was conducted by its main Khatib Moulana Syed A T M Taleb Alauddin Al Quadery while second one was led by the mosque's Pesh Imam Moulana Ahmedul Haque.

BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury offered his Eid-ul-Fitr prayers in the morning at his ancestral home at Kattali in the city.