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Mamtaz Sanghamita was a physician and an Indian politician. She is a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal. She won the Indian general election, 2014 being an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
Mamtaz Sanghamita is daughter of the late Syed Abul Mansur Habibullah, a former Speaker of the West Bengal assembly and a former Law Minister, and Maqsooda Khatoon, an educationist.
A gynaecologist by profession, she was head of the department of gynaecology at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital.
Early life
She attended the Municipal Girls School in Bardhaman and the Brahmo Balika Shikshalaya in Kolkata from where she passed out in first division securing letter in four subjects. She completed Pre-Medical from Bethune College. She passed MBBS from Calcutta Medical College in 1968. This was followed by DGO in 1970 from the University of Calcutta and MD (OTG) from Delhi University. She went to UK for higher studies.
Family
In 1975 she married Nurey Alam Chowdhury, a barrister and later a Cabinet Minister in the State Government. Their only daughter Dr. Shabana Roze is a MBBS from National Medical College and is pursuing higher medical research.