West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and dignitaries from overseas embassies, consulates and the UNESCO could be gift at the occasion. State Information and Culture Minister Indranil Sen and Chief Secretary Harikrishna Dwivedi held separate preparatory meetings.
The Durga Puja carnival at Kolkata’s Red Road could be hung on Saturday after years with at the least ninety puja committees collaborating with inside the event. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and dignitaries from overseas embassies, consulates and the UNESCO could be gift at the occasion.
State Information and Culture Minister Indranil Sen and Chief Secretary Harikrishna Dwivedi held separate preparatory meetings. In a assembly with the Puja organizers, the Kolkata Police have issued a hard and fast of hints. Of the almost one hundred pujas the country authorities had shortlisted for the carnival, 10 will now no longer be gift, it’s miles learnt.
“Some puja committees do the immersion of idol on Vijaya Dashami. The 10 committees stated they can’t alternate their lifestyle and therefore confirmed their unwillingness to take part. This time, the Naktala Udayan Sangha committee became now no longer invited to the carnival. Former minister Partha Chatterjee, who has been arrested for his alleged involvement withinside the college jobs scam, became the primary purchaser of this puja. The CM, not like different years, did now no longer inaugurate this puja,” an respectable stated.
Anjan Das, a Naktala Udayan Sangha organiser, stated, “We do now no longer recognize why we have been now no longer invited. We even do now no longer recognize why many prizes have been now no longer given. We are glad that a big range of human beings got here to peer our pandal.”
The programme will begin with a display with the aid of using the Kolkata Police’s ‘Daredevil’ force. Then there’ll a dance overall performance with the aid of using Donna Ganguly, spouse of former Indian cricket crew captain Sourav Ganguly. Since Donna is reportedly inflamed with chikungunya, there may be uncertainty approximately her overall performance. Officials from numerous embassies had been invited to the carnival this time. Prominent industrialists, consisting of participants on the chambers of commerce, also are at the invitees’ list.
Nearly 2,500 police employees and 120 firefighters could be deployed close to the venue, an respectable stated. Joint Commissioner of Police (headquarters) Shubhankar Sarkar additionally held a assembly with the representatives of the puja committees who will take part with inside the carnival in Alipore bodyguard line. The officials incharge of all police stations have been additionally gift with inside the assembly.
Every puja committee will enhance simplest 3 tableaux and could show off their programme for 3 minutes, the hints say. Each membership or puja committee can set up a precession however the range of contributors will should now no longer extra than 50. The Durga idol, consisting of the peak of vehicle, must now no longer be extra than 16ft tall, it became specified.
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