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BENGALURU: This year, Biharis in Bengaluru will be celebrating 40 years of Durga Puja in the city. The apartment has about 500 families from all castes and communities and the association has decided to celebrate Durga Puja, Ayudha Puja, Navaratri, Bathukamma and Golu. "As soon as Barkatullah sir got to know about it, he asked the Bihari community members to organise puja on land available on his factory premises. But he always made sure we didn’t face any problem," says Ram Kewal Singh, who has taken part in every Bihari community Durga Puja in the city since 1979. He even got the hall cleaned for us to perform puja," recalls Prasad, a senior member of Siddhartha Sanskritik Samiti and the one who started Bihari Durga Puja Mahotsava with his friends Sita Sharan Sharma, Radhey Shyam Mishra and others..