Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy (1894, Calcutta Template:Spaced en dash 24 November 1961, Calcutta) was an Indian politician.
Biography
Singh Roy studied at the Hindu School and the Presidency University, Kolkata, and received a Bachelor and Master of Laws from the Law College Kolkata. Later he was a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court.
In 1921 Roy was elected to the Bengal Legislative Council in British India and was Minister of Local Self-Government in 1930. On 1 April 1932, he introduced a bill on a municipal code.[1] Singh Roy was Sheriff of Calcutta and from 1937 to 1941 in the cabinet of AK Fazlul Huq with responsibility for the Treasury in Bengal. From 1943 to 1947 he was chairman of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.[2][3][4]
In 1947 Roy was the President of the Calcutta Club.[5] After the first India-Pakistan war, on 6 July 1950 he gave a speech on All India Radio covering an Indo-Pakistani agreement.[6]
From 1958 to 1959, Singh Roy was Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).[7]
References
- ↑ Indian Recorder April June 1932. Indian Journalists Association..
- ↑ WEST BENGAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
- ↑ The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Cambridge University Press(2018). ISBN 978-1-108-41776-1
- ↑ Calcutta Municipal Gazette{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India.(1967)
- ↑ PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE CLUB. Calcutta Club(12 April 2013).
- ↑ AIR,Calcutta/6.7.1950,A31nSri (Sir) Bijay Prasad Singh Roy, Ex-Minister, Bengali, and ex-President, Bengal Legislative Council, who broadcast a talk on Indo-Pakistan Agreement from the Calcutta Station of AIR on July, 17, 1950.. photodivision.gov.in.
- ↑ Business and politics in India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of California Press(1 January 1974). ISBN 9780520023772
