The two-day “Karam Festival,” a major festival of the Orao (an indigenous community living in the northern districts of Bangladesh) has started in Thakurgaon district.
On Friday night, hundreds of members of the Orao community engaged into singing and dancing to the beats of tam-tam to mark the festival in Salondar Paanchpirdanga of Thakurgaon sadar upazila under the arrangement of National Adivasi Parishad.
Children and teenagers also joined the programme.
Police Super Forhat Ahmed, Salondar Union Parishad Chairman Fazle Elahi Mukut Chowdhury, Thakurgaon Press Club Chairman Abu Torab Manik, Advisor to the Adivasi Parishad Advocate Imran Chowdhury were present at the programme.
The festival ended yesterday with offering branches of the Karam tree to the Tangon river.
The festival is celebrated in Pachpirdanga, Jagannathpur, Gobindanagarh and Chandipur villages of the district on the last day of Bhadra and ends on the first day of Ashwin, according to the Bengali calendar.