State Bhawaiya festival begins

 

COOCH BEHAR, Jan. 24: State health and family welfare minister Dr Surya Kanta Mishra inaugurated the 19th state Bhawaiya competition and fair at Baneswar Khabsa High School premises in Cooch Behar today. The festival will continue till Saturday. Backward classes welfare minister Mr Jogesh Chandra Barman, forest minister Mr Ananta Roy, Cooch Behar Zilla Parishad sabhadhipati Mr Jnanendra Chandra Chanda, two MPs – Mr Tarini Roy and Mr Hiten Barman, ex-chief justice of Bangladesh Md Mustafa Kamal Abbasi and other guests spoke on the occasion. Dr Mishra termed the festival as a cultural platform of all the people of this region. []