The festival is observed every year near the Jora Masjid at Mirza Bazar area of Midnapore city in West Midnapore district where devotees offer flowers, chhaddars and itr to the shrine of the venerated saint Hazrat Syed Shah Mehr Ali Alquadri Al Baghdadi.
Altogether 2133 devotees arrived in the train originating from Rajbari in Bangladesh to participate in the festival which entered its 116th year.
The four-day festival began yesterday.
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