She won the 2014 Indian general election being an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
[1] 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.
[2][3] A gynaecologist by profession, she was head of the department of gynaecology at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital.
[4] 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.
[3] In 1975 she married Nurey Alam Chowdhury, a barrister and later a Cabinet Minister in the State Government.