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Migrant Workers Revive 350-Year-Old Puja Tradition In Malda

Bhandara is organised for devotees on Ashtami puja through fund raised by migrant labourers

Malda: Some of them work in Delhi, some in Haryana. They are all migrant workers from Malda in West Bengal. Twelve years ago, they had decided that they would participate in their village puja differently.

In 2013, they donated Rs 1500 each to create a fund. After returning home during the puja, they used that money to feed thousands of people on Mahashtami. That was the beginning. This is how migrant workers participated in this puja, which was introduced by the Chanchal King, Ramchandra Roychowdhury.

Usually, the ten-armed goddess Maa is worshipped during Durga Puja. But in the temple of Paharpur in Cha

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