Mamta Wahab

{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mamta Wahab

| office = Deputy Minister of Health

| term_start = 1986

| term_end = 1991

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| successor =

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| death_date = 2012

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| party = Jatiya Party (Ershad)

| relations = Rowshan Ershad (sister)

| office2 = Member of Bangladesh Parliament

| term_start2 = 1988

| term_end2 = 1991

| predecessor2 = Motiur Rahman

| successor2 = AKM Fazlul Haque

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Mamta Wahab is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician in Bangladesh and a former member of parliament for Mymensingh-4. She is the older sister of Rowshan Ershad{{Cite web|script-title=bn:বাংলাদেশের রাজনীতিতে কে কার আত্মীয়? |url=https://www.ppbd.news/lead-news/12822|access-date=2020-06-02|website=Purboposchim |language=bn}} and was arrested on 14 December 1991 after her brother was removed from power.{{cite book |title=Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Part III |date=1991 |publisher=Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQGUD65lZWcC&q=Begum+Mamta+Wahab |language=en}}

Career

Wahab was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1988.{{cite web |title=List of 4th Parliament Members |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/4th.pdf |website=Bangladesh Parliament |language=bn |access-date=9 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708101931/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/4th.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2019}} She served as the deputy minister of health. Her sister, Rowshan Ershad,{{Cite news |script-title=bn:মান ভাঙেনি রওশনের!|url=https://www.banglanews24.com/politics/news/bd/108772.details|access-date=2020-06-02|work=Banglanews24.com|language=bn}} her brother-in-law, Hussain Mohammad Ershad, was the president of Bangladesh.{{cite web |title=Bangladesh Ministers |url=https://guide2womenleaders.com/Bangladesh.htm |website=guide2womenleaders.com |access-date=9 May 2020}}

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