Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Wednesday said that miscreants had attempted to disrupt Durga Puja celebrations under outside influence, but their efforts failed.

"The miscreants tried to create instability in the puja influenced from outside, but they did not succeed," he said while visiting the Durga Puja mandap at Isapura in Sirajdikhan this afternoon.

The adviser noted that at the outset of the puja, rumors about a rape incident were spread to instigate unrest, but the attempts failed. 

"This year, Durga Puja has been celebrated with full festivity across the country," he added, expressing gratitude to all who helped ensure the smooth celebration.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shahina Akhter, Puja Udhjapan Parishad President Badal Pal and other local elites were also present during the visit.

No untoward incident was reported with the Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the minority Hindu community, being celebrated in a festive mood, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner SM Sazzat Ali said on Wednesday.

Police are ready to deal with any attempts to disrupt the peaceful environment in which the Durga Puja is being observed, he warned.

The DMP Commissioner made the remarks while visiting puja mandaps at Banani and Bashundhara residential areas in the capital in the afternoon.

Sazzaat said that 254 puja mandaps across Dhaka city are celebrating the religious event.

He assured all of ensuring every measure necessary to enable a joyful ending of the festival with the immersion ritual tomorrow.

The commissioner further said that people of different religions—Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians—have lived together in harmony for centuries in this country and stressed the need to protect this communal harmony for future generations.

Additional Police commissioner S.N. Mohammad Nazrul Islam, along with other senior DMP officials, accompanied the commissioner in his visit.