Sivasagar town breaks into a sea of humanity as Shivrari festival enters day two on Tuesday.
The entire historic town in the state is teeming with thousands of devotees from the state and outside who are catching glimpse of the three day long festival for puja offering to the Lord Shiva.
From early in the morning devotees are waiting in long queue in front of the historic Shiva temple in the heart of the town to offer Mahashivratri puja.
Senior district administration officials told Assam Times that arrangements are in place to ensure smooth celebration of the festival where people from the country and abroad are pouring in.
Devotees from the far flung areas are getting a huge make shift camp in the town from Monday to Wednesday. The district administration has been providing the devotees with food from Monday to Wednesday.
Potable water, sanitation and medical facilities are also made available in the festival site.
“We are on the round-the-clock vigil to thwart any attempt to spoil the celebration here,” said a senior police officials who urged the people to help them hold the festival without any hindrance.
The focus of attraction is the exhibition at the Shiva temple premises which pulls huge crowd from morning to evening.
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Congress party is gearing up for the upcoming poll in Nazira slated for April 4. Party candidate and sitting MLA Debabrate Saikia met party workers and asked them to work hard in grassroot level. A party workers meeting was held on Wednesday at Saikia's residence.
Alleging about the neglect and deprivation faced by the Ahom community of Nazira constituency the Members of the All Assam Tai Ahom burnt effigies of BJP state president Sarbananda Sonowal and MP Kamakhya Prashad Tasa in front of the Nazira BJP office. They raised slogans against the party and held that due to a conspiracy between Sonowal and Tasa the Ahom community of Nazira remains depraved. Despite having the majority number of voters, candidates of Ahom descent never chanced to contest from Nazira constituency they added.
Welcome gate to the historic Nazira Sub divison as been constructed and inaugurated at a public meeting on Friday. The gate was constructed with MLA development fund of Nazira at a total cost of around 51 Lakhs.
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In the memory of the Cultural icon of Assam Rupkunwar Jyotiprashad Agarwala, the Nazira Anchalik Sahitya Xobha observed Shilpi Divas with a day long programme at Nazira on Sunday. On this occasion competitions and a seminer was organised.
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Abhijit Dulakhakhoria (30) of Namti Dupdor gaon died in a bike accident at 9 AM on Thursday in the main road of Nazira town, when he was trying to cross the road. The other rider Nipul Gogoi (26) was also seriously injured and reffered to the Assam Medical College Hospital of Dibrugarh.
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