Today is Lakshmi Puja in Bengal and the East comprising of Assam, Odisha and Tripura. It is popularly known as the Kojagori Purnima and the East insists on invoking Lakshmi on the full moon day of the lunar month of Ashwin, while the North and West worship Lakshmi Puja a little later, on the darkest moon night, Amavasya, as Diwali.
