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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|West Bengal politician}}<br />
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| honorific_prefix = [[Maulana]]<br />
| name = Muhammad Momtaz<br />
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| office = Member of [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start = 1951<br />
| term_end = 1957<br />
| predecessor = ''Constituency established''<br />
| successor = [[Narayan Chobey]]<br />
| constituency = [[Kharagpur Assembly constituency]]<br />
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| birth_place = [[Kharagpur subdivision|Kharagpur]], [[Midnapore district]], [[Bengal Presidency]]<br />
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| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
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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]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Momtaz was born into a [[Bengali Muslim]] family in [[Kharagpur subdivision|Kharagpur]], [[Midnapore district]], [[Bengal Presidency]].<ref name=la/><br />
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==Career==<br />
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]].<ref name=la>{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/1951/kharagpur/|title=Kharagpur, 1951|website=Latestly|access-date=9 May 2024}}</ref> He lost to Marxist candidate [[Narayan Chobey]] in the [[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/1957/kharagpur/|title=Kharagpur, 1957|website=Latestly|access-date=9 May 2024}}</ref><br />
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