KHULNA, Aug 24, 2024 (BSS) - Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has taken tight
security measures to ensure peaceful celebration of 'Janmastami', the birth
celebration of Lord Krishna, at city temples, scheduled to be held on August
26.

The decision was taken in a view exchange meeting between Khulna Metropolitan
Police (KMP) and the leaders of Hindu community at KMP headquarters in the
city on Friday evening with KMP commissioner Md Mozammel Haque in the chair,
a KMP press release said here today.

The meeting decided to take adequate security measures at temples so that any
terrorist or militant groups can't organise any subversive activities during
the 'Janmastami' celebration.

To keep law and order situation stable, adequate police including plain
clothes and women will be deployed along with the volunteers who will be
deployed by the Puja Udjapan Parishad.

The KMP commissioner asked the leaders of puja udjapan committee to send a
list of temples where 'Janmastami' will be celebrated to the KMP control room
and to refrain from activities during 'Azan' and 'Namaz' and urged devotees
to enter temples without bags.

"Traffic police will be deployed at the temple areas," he said, adding that
devotees and the Hindu community men should refrain from sending provocative
posts through social media which will destroy communal harmony in the
society.

Additional Police Commissioner Taslima Khatun, KMP officials, city unit Puja
Udjapan Parishad President Shyamol Halder, its General Secretary Shyamol
Kumar Kundu, among others, attended the meeting.