North Bengal Province

North Bengal Province (Bengali: উত্তরবঙ্গ প্রদেশ, Urdu: شمالی بنگال صوبہ) was a proposed province in Pakistan in 1968 and later in Bangladesh in 1972 and 2010. During the Six point movement for East Pakistan's autonomy in 1968, the non-Bengali Muhajir community initiated a movement to establish the proposed province, known as the Muhajirland Movement. In 1969, the movement's activists proposed creating a separate province consisting of predominantly Muhajir inhabited districts of East Pakistan's North Bengal. Right-wing political parties supported the North Bengal Province movement to undermine the Six point movement.

The activists issued a declaration highlighting the risks of declaring North Bengal a province before its development and presented a list of 20 demands. In 1970, Yahya Khan, president of Pakistan, rejected the proposal for a new province. After the independence of East Pakistan as Bangladesh in 1972, cabinet member Mafiz Ali Chowdhury proposed forming Padma Province with the region of North Bengal. In 2010, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, founder and chairman of the Jatiya Party, included a proposal for North Bengal Province comprising the Rangpur Division in his plan for a provincial system. His party also incorporated the plan to establish the province in their 2018 election manifesto.