বাংলা 
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7 December 1971. A memorable day in the history of Chuadanga and indeed of Bangladesh. The present district headquarters Chuadanga was freed from the grip of the occupying and invading forces after the nine-month war of independence. On this day Chuadanga became free, or independent. The situation that led to Chuadanga’s liberation essentially began from the first days of December. From the beginning of December, the Liberation War intensified everywhere in Chuadanga subdivision in the areas adjacent to the Indian border. As a result, on 6 December the situation became extremely tense.
From the morning of that day, fighting began between the freedom fighters and the occupying forces around Chuadanga. On one side, the freedom fighters wanted to liberate Chuadanga; on the other, the occupying forces wanted to resist them. Damurhuda thana lies about six miles due west of Chuadanga. Two villages of this thana are Ujirpur and Pirpur. The distance of these two villages from Chuadanga town is 3-4 miles. A large number of freedom fighters had taken positions in these two villages along with several nearby villages. The distance from these two villages to Damurhuda thana headquarters is 3-4 miles. Another border village of the same thana is Karpasdanga. Another thana headquarters of Chuadanga is Jibannagar.
Its distance from Chuadanga is 22 miles. There were camps of the invading forces at the Damurhuda and Jibannagar thana headquarters. Besides, there were camps of the invading forces at various important places of Chuadanga (the then subdivision). On that day, that is, 6 December, the freedom fighters stationed in various villages of Damurhuda thana including Ujirpur and Pirpur received news that the invading forces were moving troops from their various camps in Damurhuda and Jibannagar thanas and advancing on Chuadanga Sadar. At once the freedom fighters stationed in Ujirpur, Pirpur and the surrounding villages, through their informers, spread the decision that by any means the invading forces of Damurhuda and Jibannagar and the various areas of these two thanas must be stopped from advancing towards Chuadanga. According to their decision, the freedom fighters laid a mine under a culvert on the main road from Damurhuda and Karpasdanga to Chuadanga.
But because of a trifling mistake, the freedom fighters' entire plan came to nothing. Before the invading forces could pass that way to Chuadanga, an unknown person, for some reason, drove a bullock cart under that culvert and was killed there in the explosion of the mine. The freedom fighters then made a new plan. The Mathabhanga river lies not far from the Chuadanga-Damurhuda road. A short way from Chuadanga towards Damurhuda, on the bank of this river — that is, to the south — lie Ujirpur and many villages along with it, and across the river many villages including Pirpur. After the freedom fighters' first plan to resist the invading forces failed, the freedom fighters of Ujirpur and the neighbouring villages crossed the river and joined the freedom fighters of the safer places of Pirpur and its neighbouring villages, and dividing into two groups they prepared to launch an all-out attack on the invading Pakistani forces. Around 10-11 o'clock in the morning of 6 December, the occupying Pakistani forces, moving their troops from Damurhuda thana headquarters and the Karpasdanga border camp of that thana, took position on their way to Chuadanga by the Mathabhanga river, adjacent to Ujirpur village, on the Chuadanga-Damurhuda main road. At that time, the freedom fighters already positioned in Pirpur and its surrounding villages, receiving news of this position of the Pakistani invaders, attacked them within a short time. The Pakistani invaders too replied to the freedom fighters' attack. As a tactic of war, the freedom fighters kept attacking the invading forces intermittently.
The freedom fighters adopted that tactic to delay the invading forces' arrival at Chuadanga Sadar. In this way the battle between the freedom fighters and the invading forces continued here for about 4-5 hours, and so the invading forces' arrival in Chuadanga was also delayed. In the meantime, a messenger was sent from the freedom fighters' side to Chuadanga to learn the latest situation there. And alongside, the freedom fighters' exchange of fire with the invading forces continued. After quite some time, the messenger returned to the freedom fighters at Pirpur village with news from Chuadanga and reported that the Pakistani invaders were retreating from Chuadanga and heading towards Alamdanga. Alamdanga was a thana of the then Chuadanga subdivision. In this situation, the freedom fighters of Pirpur village and the surrounding villages halted their attack on the invading forces for a while and stayed quiet. From among them, one group left Pirpur and came to Alukdia village of Chuadanga Sadar thana. Meanwhile, the Pakistani invading forces that had taken position by the Mathabhanga river, who had come from Damurhuda and Karpasdanga, moved straight into Chuadanga, and joining the force retreating from Chuadanga towards Alamdanga, they too headed for Alamdanga.
Meanwhile, the invading forces from another subdivision of the country — that is, from Meherpur, 18 miles due west of Chuadanga subdivision — also began to retreat and advance towards Chuadanga. Various kinds of bombs and explosives were laid and placed on both sides of the Chuadanga-Meherpur road with the aim of wiping out the invading forces on both sides of this road. In this situation the invading forces, with the utmost caution, reached Chuadanga at 6 o'clock in the evening of 6 December. Finding no one in Chuadanga, the invading forces retreating from Meherpur set out towards Chuadanga, but on the way, at Munsiganj, they had a fierce battle with the freedom fighters. Before leaving Chuadanga, the Pakistani invaders abandoned 200 rifles on the Chuadanga town ground. They also blew up the eastern side of the bridge over the Mathabhanga river adjoining Chuadanga town with dynamite. Besides, after the evening of 6 December, before leaving Chuadanga, the invading forces set fire to and destroyed a number of important government and private institutions in Chuadanga town, among them the Chuadanga electricity supply centre. The Pakistani invaders stationed at Chuadanga subdivision headquarters and at various places of the subdivision left Chuadanga within 8-9 o'clock on the night of 6 December.
