DL reporter

The first ever ‘Bangladesh-Tripura Cultural Festival 2017’ is going to be held at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) in the capital’s Segun Bagicha, which will begin today at the Nandan Mancha of BSA.
The three-day festival will be inaugurated by Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith as chief guest today at 4:30pm, while Tripura Cultural Affairs Minister Bhanu Lal Saha will be present as special guest. Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla, MBB University Vice Chancellor Professor Gautam Bose, Bangladesh-Tripura Cultural Festival Council co-chairman Nasir Uddin Yousuff, team leader of Tripura Cultural Representative Team Gautam Das and BSA Director General Liaquat Ali Lucky will attend the occasion as guests of honour.
Presided over by Bangladesh-Tripura Cultural Festival Council Chairman Ramendu Majumdar, noted cultural personality Selim SH Chowdhury, Member-Secretary of Bangladesh-Tripura Cultural Festival Council will deliver the welcome speech at the opening ceremony.
 After the inauguration, the cultural event will feature a dance recital by Tamanna Rahman and her troupe, solo and group recitation, songs rendition and dance performances.
Eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi will inaugurate an art exhibition at National Art Gallery of BSA on the opening day today.
The three-day festival will also feature discussion, seminar, poetry recitation, staging of plays, and solo and chorus music performance and dance performances.
To disclose detailed information about the festival, a press conference was held at a city hotel on Thusday, where cultural personalities and festival organizers Ramendu Majumdar, Selim SH Chowdhury, Golam Kuddus, Sohrab Uddin, Babul Biswas, Mizanur Rahman, Nargis Chowdhury, and Tamanna Rahman among others, were present.
To take part in the festival a 60-member cultural team from Tripura arrived in Dhaka yesterday.