‘Mayer Gaman’ (farewell to Mother) programme to be flagged off by the chief minister tomorrow at 5-00 PM

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, October 22, 2026

The annual ‘Mayer Gaman’ (farewell to Mother) programme to formally signal the immersion of the images of ‘Debi Durga’ and her retinue of lesser deities will be officially flagged off by the chief minister Dr Manik Saha at 5-00 in the evening tomorrow from the front side of the Maharani Tulsivati Girls HS school. As in previous years the trucks and other vehicles carrying the images of the Mother Goddess and her retinue have been instructed by the state government to line up from the front side of the MTV Girls HS school backward up to the royal palace and along Laxmi Narayan Bari road well in time . This ‘Mayer Gaman’ programme is also known in popular parlance as ‘carnival’.

In a letter issued jointly by the AMC commissioner Saju Waheed and the director of ICA department Bimbisar Bhattacharjee it has been stated that the chief minister Dr Manik Sahar who will be inaugurator and chief guest in the programme will flag off the ‘Mayer Gaman’ at 5-00 in the evening for immersion of images in the Hawrah river in Dashamighat area. The programme will also be attended by other senior ministers like Santana Chaka, Sushanta Chowdhury, Tinku Roy, Bikash Debbarma, Sudhangshu Das, Shukla Charan Noatia and Kishore Barman.

In addition, Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Bhattacharjee, AMC Mayor Dipak Majumder, MLA and BJP state president Abhishek Debroy, west district ‘Sabhadhipati’ Bishwajit Shil will remain present as special guests. Besides, chief secretary J.K.Sinha, DGP G.S.Rao and ICA secretary Kiran Gittye will grace the occasion as specially invited guests. The arrangements will also be made for an expectedly large number of viewers of the programme.

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