Joint General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League, Member of National Parliament of Kushtia-3 Constituency Mahabubul Alam Hanif promised to build this bridge by giving importance to the demands of the people of Haripur Union.

[3] On December 22, 2013, under the supervision of LGED, Kushtia, the contracting firm Mir Akhtar Associates received the work order for the construction of the bridge.

On March 24, 2017, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Khandkar Mosharraf Hossain inaugurated the bridge.

71 crore 1 lakh 55 thousand 632 taka were spent to build the Haripur bridge over Gorai river in Kushtia .

When the bridge was not there, the people of Haripur used to travel to Kushtia town by boat crossing through the Ghorar Ghat.