Baisakhi fair starts tomorrow at Laldighi Maidan around Jabbar’s Balikhela

The 115th edition of the traditional Abdul Jabbar Balikhela of Chittagong will be held next Thursday. CMP Commissioner Krishna Pad Roy will inaugurate the competition. After the game, MP ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury will present as the chief guest and distribute the prizes. From yesterday, the work of making sand stage for volleyball at Laldighi ground has started. The height of this stage of 20 feet by 20 feet will be 6 feet. The Baisakhi fair will continue for three days from today Tuesday around this centenary ball game held at Laldighi Maidan. The fair will be outside the field. Small traders from far and wide sit and arrange their stalls. A rural fair is now going on in an area of ​​about three square kilometers around Laldighi around Jabbar Balikhela. Traders have started to leave their posts and take up space. Goods are coming in truck after truck from remote areas. The shops at the fair sell earthenware, toys, vases and dolls, cane and bamboo furniture, hand fans, fishing poles, twigs, pots, saplings, ornaments, cool mats, knives, brooms, etc. A variety of household items will be available. In 1909, Abdul Jabbar of Buxirhat area organized this ball game at Laldighi ground in Saudagar city to organize the youth in the anti-British movement. Which is known as Jabbar Ballikhela in the circle of time. Every year on the 12th of Baisakh, this ball game is held at Laldighi ground. A large number of Bali from different upazilas of Chittagong Division including Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Noakhali, Comilla, Rangamati, Khagrachari, Bandarban, Chakaria, Ukhia, Teknaf participated in it. A large number of spectators come to watch the physical exercise of these victims.