Muhammad Momtaz

{{Short description|West Bengal politician}}{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}{{Use Indian English|date=June 2024}}{{Other uses|Moazzem Hossain (disambiguation)}}

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| honorific_prefix = Maulana

| name = Muhammad Momtaz

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| office = Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly

| term_start = 1951

| term_end = 1957

| predecessor = Constituency established

| successor = Narayan Chobey

| constituency = Kharagpur Assembly constituency

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| birth_place = Kharagpur, Midnapore district, Bengal Presidency

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| party = Indian National Congress

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Maulana Muhammad Momtaz was an Islamic scholar and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was a member of the first West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Early life

Momtaz was born into a Bengali Muslim family in Kharagpur, Midnapore district, Bengal Presidency.

Career

Momtaz contested in the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election where he ran as an Indian National Congress candidate for Kharagpur Assembly constituency, defeating Hindutva-oriented Bharatiya Jana Sangh politician B. C. Ghose.{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/1951/kharagpur/|title=Kharagpur, 1951|website=Latestly|access-date=9 May 2024}} He lost to Marxist candidate Narayan Chobey in the 1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/1957/kharagpur/|title=Kharagpur, 1957|website=Latestly|access-date=9 May 2024}}

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