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{{short description|Indian politician}}
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| birth_date              = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1945|07|27}}
| birth_place             = Chare, [[Tuensang district]], Nagaland, India
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| occupation              = Politician<br />Social worker<br />Industrialist
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| known for               = [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Indian National Congress]]
| spouse                  = Yashila Asung
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| children                = Two sons and two daughters
| parents                 = Hopongki
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| awards                  = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''K. Asungba Sangtam''' is an Indian politician, industrialist, social worker and a former member of [[Lok Sabha]].<ref name="Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiapress.org/election/archives/lok12/biodata/12ng01.php | title=Biographical Sketch – Member of Parliament | publisher=India Press | date=2016 | accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref> He was a member of the [[12th Lok Sabha|12th]] and [[13th Lok Sabha]] representing [[Nagaland (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nagaland Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref name="Statistical Report on General Elections, 1998">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1998 |publisher=Election Commission of India |date=2016 |accessdate=26 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718181833/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf |archivedate=18 July 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Statistical Report on General Elections, 1999">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1999 |publisher=Election Commission of India |date=2016 |accessdate=26 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183222/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf |archivedate=18 July 2014 }}</ref>

Born on 27 July 1945 at Chare, a small village in [[Tuensang district]] of the Northeast Indian state of [[Nagaland]] to Hopongki, Sangtam did his early schooling at [[St. Edmund's School, Shillong]] (1962) and completed his pre-university course at [[St. Edmund's College, Shillong]] in 1964. He started his graduate degree from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] and completed it in 1970 from the [[Fazl Ali College]], [[Mokokchung]] in Nagaland.<ref name="National Election Watch - 2009">{{cite web | url=http://myneta.info/ls2009/candidate.php?candidate_id=788 | title=National Election Watch – 2009 | publisher=My Neta | date=2009 | accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref> Aligned with the [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)|Indian National Congress]], he is a member of the [[Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee]], serving it as a joint secretary in 1987 and as a secretary in 1989. During his tenure as a member of Lok Sabha, he served as a member of the Committee on Communications and as a member of the Consultative Committee of the [[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Ministry of Agriculture]].<ref name="Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament" /> He also contested the general elections of [[2004 Indian general election|2004]] and [[2009 Indian general election|2009]], though unsuccessfully.<ref name="Nagaland: NPF nominee to be lone representative in LS">{{cite web | url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/nagaland-npf-nominee-to-be-lone-representative-in-ls-1527497.html | title=Nagaland: NPF nominee to be lone representative in LS | publisher=First Post | date=16 May 2014 | accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2009, for his contributions to society.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |accessdate=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

Sangtam, who is the president of the ''Baptist Church Trust Association'' (BCTA), Delhi, a partner organisation of the [[BMS World Mission]],<ref name="Top honour for Indian partner">{{cite web | url=http://www.bmsworldmission.org/news-blogs/archive/top-honour-indian-partner | title=Top honour for Indian partner | publisher=BMS World Mission | date=2016 | accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref> is married to Yashila Asung and the couple has two sons and two daughters. He lives at Shamrock Dale at [[Mokokchung]], in Nagaland.<ref name="Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament" />

== See also ==
* [[Nagaland (Lok Sabha constituency)]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.wisevoter.org/politicians/k.-asungba-sangtam/ | title=K. Asungba Sangtam Nagaland | publisher=Wise Voter | date=2016 | accessdate=26 February 2016}}

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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in public affairs]]
[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:People from Mokokchung district]]
[[Category:Naga people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Nagaland]]
[[Category:12th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:13th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Nagaland]]
[[Category:Social workers]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Nagaland]]
[[Category:Social workers from Nagaland]]


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