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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Aroma Dutta
| native_name = আরমা দত্ত
| native_name_lang = bn
| constituency_MP = Reserved Women's Seat-11
| term_start = February 2019
| predecessor = [[Happy Baral]]
| education = MS, M.I.A
| occupation = Human Rights Activist
| birth_date = {{birth_date and age|20 Jul 1950|df=y}}
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| relatives = {{Ubl|[[Dhirendranath Datta]] (grandfather)|[[Ritwik Kumar Ghatak]] (uncle)}}
}}
'''Aroma Dutta''' (born 20 July 1950)<ref name="Pinfo">{{Cite web|title=Constituency 311|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-11th-parliament-members-english?layout=edit&id=4287|access-date=2021-05-19|website=www.parliament.gov.bd}}</ref> is a Bangladeshi social and human rights activist. In February 2019, she was nominated by the ruling party, [[Bangladesh Awami League]], to a seat reserved for women in the [[2018 Bangladeshi general election|11th parliament]] of [[Jatiya Sangsad]].<ref name="mp">{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2019/02/08/aroma-suborna-to-become-mp-as-awami-league-names-41-for-reserved-seats|title=Aroma, Suborna to become MP as Awami League names 41 for reserved seats|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=2019-02-09|date=2019-02-08}}</ref>

==Early life==
Dutta's grandfather, [[Dhirendranath Datta]], a member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] and the first person to demand Bengali be made a state language in Pakistan.<ref name="mp"/> He was killed in the [[Bangladesh Liberation war]] by members of the [[Pakistan army]] and is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite web|title=Datta, Dhirendranath|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Datta,_Dhirendranath|website=Banglapedia|access-date=29 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> Aroma's father, Sanjib Datta, was a journalist who worked in the [[Pakistan Observer]].<ref name="mp"/> Her ancestral home in Brahmanbaria was taken over by Muslims after the Bangladesh Liberation war through the use of the vested property act. She has tried to get it back through the local courts but has failed to do so.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tripathi |first=Salil |year=2016 |title=The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DyTUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT291 |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=286–287 |isbn=978-0-300-21818-3}}</ref> She served in the [[National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh]]. Her uncle was the filmmaker [[Ritwik Kumar Ghatak]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Ritwik Kumar Ghatak recalled in Rajshahi|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-118132|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=17 December 2009|language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Dutta is an executive director of PRIP (Private Rural Initiatives Program) Trust.<ref name="brbn">{{cite news|title=Aroma Dutta, Noorjahan Begum receive Begum Rokeya Award-2016|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/12/09/aroma-dutta-noorjahan-begum-receive-begum-rokeya-award-2016|access-date=29 November 2017|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref> In 2012, she criticised the draft Hindu Marriage Registration Act for making the registration of Hindu marriage optional and called for it to be made mandatory.<ref>{{cite news|title=Make registration mandatory|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-235379|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=23 May 2012|language=en}}</ref> She has protested violence against minorities in Bangladesh and called for punishment for attackers involved in violence against Buddhists in Cox's Bazar.<ref>{{cite news|title=Punish attackers|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-252148|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=2 October 2012|language=en}}</ref> She has spoken against the vested property act, that unfairly targets religious minorities.<ref>{{cite news|title='Revise bill on vested property return act'|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-155072|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=19 September 2010|language=en}}</ref> She has expressed the only way to protect minorities in Bangladesh is through the proper implementation of laws in the country.<ref>{{cite news|title=Proper implementation of laws needed|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/proper-implementation-of-laws-needed-52435|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=28 November 2014|language=en}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
In 2016, Dutta was awarded the [[Begum Rokeya Padak]] by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Realise your rights by yourselves|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/realise-your-due-rights-yourselves-1327951|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=10 December 2016|language=en}}</ref> She has called for security forces to be deployed in vulnerable election areas for elections to take place.<ref>{{cite news|title=‘Check if political party charter contradicts constitution’|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/election-commission-sits-women-leaders-bangladesh-electoral-talks-1480561|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=23 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> In May 2017, she received the ''Danbir Ranada Prasad Memorial Honour and Gold Medal'' by the Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal, on behalf of her father.<ref>{{cite news|title=RP Shaha Award: 3 eminent citizens receive gold medals|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/city/rp-shaha-award-3-eminent-citizens-receive-gold-medals-1405003|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=14 May 2017|language=en}}</ref> She has called on the government to provide social security to Dalits, low caste Hindus, and other marginalised communities at a roundtable discussion in Dhaka.<ref>{{cite news|title=Social Security for Dalits and Marginalised People|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/round-tables/social-security-dalits-and-marginalised-people-1396879|access-date=29 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|date=27 April 2017|language=en}}</ref>

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