Mamtaz Sanghamita is a physician and an Indian politician. She was a

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to the

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from Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency),

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. She won the

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being an

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candidate. Mamtaz Sanghamita is daughter of the late Syed Abdul 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

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in Kolkata from where she passed out in first division securing letter in four subjects. She completed Pre-Medical from

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. She passed MBBS from

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in 1968. This was followed by DGO in 1970 from the

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and MD (OTG) from

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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.

References

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