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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Mala Roy
|image =File:Mala Roy.jpg
|caption = Roy in 2021.
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|11|19}}
|birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
|residence = [[Kolkata]]
|death_date =
|death_place =
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| constituency1 = [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Dakshin]]
| term_start1 = 23 May 2019
| term_end1 =
|predecessor1 = [[Subrata Bakshi]]
|successor1 =
|office2 = [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Chairperson of Kolkata Municipal Corporation]]
| 1blankname2 = [[List of mayors of Kolkata|Mayor]]
| 1namedata2 = [[Firhad Hakim]]
| 2blankname2 = [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Deputy]]
| 2namedata2 = [[Atin Ghosh]]
|constituency2 = [[Ward No. 88, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Ward No.88]]
|term_start2 = 8 May 2015
| term_end2 =
|office3 = [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Councillor, Kolkata Municipal Corporation]]
|constituency3 = [[Ward No. 88, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Ward No.88]]
|term_start3 = 1995
| term_end3 =
|party =[[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] (1998–2005, 2015–present)
|otherparty =[[Indian National Congress]] (1995–1998, 2010–2015)<br/>[[Nationalist Congress Party]] (2005–2010)
|spouse = Nirbed Ray
|children = 2
|source =
| website =
| footnotes =
| date =
| year = http://loksabhaph.nic.in/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=5048
}}

'''Mala Roy''' (''[[Birth name|née]]'' Sarkar; born 19 November 1957) is an [[Indian people|Indian]] politician who has been a [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Lok Sabha]] for [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Dakshin]] since [[2019 Indian general election|2019]]. She is a member of [[All India Trinamool Congress]] party. She has been the Chairperson of [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]] since 2015.

==Personal life==
Roy was graduated from [[Calcutta University]] in 1976.<ref name="MN">{{cite web |title=Mala Roy |url=http://myneta.info/LokSabha2019/candidate.php?candidate_id=12731 |publisher=MyNeta |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref> She is married to Nirbed Ray, who is the vice president and a former MLA of the Trinamool Congress party.<ref>{{cite web |title=মালার পর তৃণমূলে পা বাড়িয়ে নির্বেদ, শঙ্করও | trans-title = After Mala, Nirbed and Shankar are on the verge of joining Trinamool |url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/west-bengal-news/kolkata-news/nirbed-roy-and-sankar-singh-are-also-joining-in-tmc-after-mala-roy/articleshow/46490259.cms |publisher=[[Ei Samay]] |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref>

==Political career==
In 1995, Roy was elected to the [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]] as a councillor from [[Ward No. 88, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|ward no.88]]. She contested as a candidate of [[Indian National Congress]] party and defeated her nearest rival by a margin of 576 votes. In 2000, she contested as a candidate of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] party and retained her seat by defeating Swadeshranjan Das of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] by a margin of 3,205 votes. In 2005, she contested as a candidate of the [[Nationalist Congress Party]] and defeated [[Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar]] of Trinamool by 1,900 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners' duel and a dark horse |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/winners-duel-and-a-dark-horse/cid/1271186 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |accessdate=29 May 2019 |date=28 May 2010}}</ref> In 2010, she was re-elected, this time as a candidate of Congress party.

Roy contested the [[2014 Indian general election]] from [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Dakshin constituency]] as a candidate of the Congress party. She came fourth and managed to secure 113,453 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kolkata Dakshin |url=https://www.electionsinindia.com/west-bengal/kolkata-dakshin-parliament-lok-sabha-constituency-elections |publisher=Elections in India |accessdate=29 May 2019}}</ref> On 7 March 2015, Roy who has been a fierce critic of [[Mamata Banerjee]], rejoined her Trinamool Congress, ahead of the civic polls.<ref>{{cite web |title=West Bengal: Congress leader Mala Roy joins Trinamool Congress |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/east/story/mala-roy-trinamool-congress-tmc-congress-kmc-councillor-mamata-banerjee-243306-2015-03-07 |publisher=[[India Today]] |accessdate=29 May 2019 |date=7 March 2015}}</ref> After getting elected, she was made the chairperson of the municipal corporation. She became the first woman chairperson of the corporation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mala Roy to be KMC chairperson |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/bengal/mala-roy-to-be-kmc-chairperson-61808.html |publisher=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]] |accessdate=29 May 2019 |date=7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Congress defector Mala Roy named KMC chairperson |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/congress-defector-named-kmc-chairperson/ |publisher=[[The Indian Express]] |accessdate=29 May 2019 |date=6 May 2015}}</ref> During her tenure as ward councillor, she turned the ward no.88 into the greenest ward of the city.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mala Roy reaches out to each household, takes green route to win voter's confidence |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/lok-sabha-elections-2019/west-bengal/news/mala-roy-reaches-out-to-each-household-takes-green-route-to-win-voters-confidence/articleshow/69333102.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |accessdate=29 May 2019 |date=15 May 2019}}</ref>

On 12 March 2019, party chairperson [[Mamata Banerjee]] announced that Roy would contest the upcoming [[2019 Indian general election|general election]] from [[Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Dakshin constituency]] after the sitting MP [[Subrata Bakshi]] refused to contest as he was interested in strengthening the party's organization.<ref>{{cite web |title=মমতার কেন্দ্রে সুব্রতর 'না', গতবারের কংগ্রেস প্রার্থী মালা রায়ের উপর আস্থা তৃণমূলের | trans-title = In Mamata's constituency Subrata says 'no', Trinamool puts faith on former Congress candidate Mala Roy|url=https://bengali.oneindia.com/news/kolkata/mamata-banerjee-gives-ticket-mala-roy-from-kolkata-south-050800.html |publisher=One India |accessdate=29 May 2019 |date=12 March 2019}}</ref> On 23 May, she was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] after defeating Chandra Kumar Bose of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], her nearest rival by a margin of approximately 155,192 votes. She was polled 573,119 votes compared to Bose's 417,927.<ref>{{cite web |title=২ লাখেরও বেশি ভোটে জয়ী তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস প্রার্থী মালা রায় |trans-title = Trinamool Congress candidate Mala Roy wins by a margin of more than 2 lakh votes.|url=https://aajkaal.in/news/title/mala-ray-wins-huge-vote-94ul |publisher=Aajkaal |accessdate=29 May 2019 |language=bn |date=23 May 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://loksabhaph.nic.in/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=5048 Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
{{17th LS members from West Bengal}}

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[[Category:Living people]]
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[[Category:1957 births]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Nationalist Congress Party politicians]]

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->Tahsin Ahnav at 14:49, 27 December 2021