Bhangura Upazila

Bhangura (Bengali: ভাঙ্গুড়া, romanized: Bhāṅguṛā) or Bhangoora is an upazila of Pabna District in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh.

Abu Muhammad Yunus Ali was elected Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Atgharia-Chatmohor-Faridpur constituency of Pabna district.

He was also a popular language soldier, a close associate of Bangabandhu in the six-point demand movement, and an organizer of the 1971 Liberation War.

He was a close friend of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his only roommate in Baker Hostel in Kolkata, a classmate at Dhaka University and also a trusted political companion.

Abu Muhammad Yunus Ali served as an organizer of the liberation war in Shahzadpur, Baghabari, Nagarbari and in the remote areas of Chalanbil of Greater Pabna district in 1971, and was wounded in a battlefield.

At one stage, members of Razakar-Al-Badr[a] tortured him in an inhuman manner, and even destroyed his ancestral homestead at Sartutia of Bhangura upazila.

In 1972, after the government treatment of his injury under the supervision of Bangabandhu, he gained limited mobility after surgery.

Bhangura had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 43.98%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1010 females per 1000 males.

Main crops are Paddy, jute, wheat, onion, garlic, green chilly, khesari, musur and patal.

Three star play ground at Chandipur Bazar, Tween big pond at Chandipur bazar called Boro dighi and Soto dighi, Three-domed mosque at Kazipara (Chandipur), Baral Bridge, Boro Bil, Pathorghata four-storied Jame Mosque, Patul Playground, Patul Excursion Beach Sonali Beach (kalikadah, Boro Bil), Nobi bari (Moydan dighi Noton rasta), Baonjan Dhow (famous for fishing).

Bus services are: Shahzadpur Travels (Bhangura-Dhaka), Syamoli Paribahan (Bhangura-Chittagong), Uttara Paribahan (Bhangura-Rajshahi), B-Nagar (Bhangura-Bogra) and direct bus services also exist from Bhangura to Pabna, Ishurdi, Kushtia, Baghabari (Sirajgonj) etc.