Gayeshwar Chandra Roy

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Gayeshwar Chandra Roy
গয়েশ্বর চন্দ্র রায়
Gayeshwar Chandra Roy (Sunday, 31 August 2025) (cropped).jpg
Roy in 2025
Minister of State for Environment and Forest
In office
19 September 1991 –19 March 1996
Children
  • Amitav Roy
  • Aparna Roy
Occupationpolitician

Gayeshwar Chandra Roy (born 1 November 1951) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician and former state minister of the Bangladeshi government. He is currently serving as a Standing Committee (the highest policy-making forum) member of the party. [1] He was also a member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal during the 1970s.

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Early life

Roy was born on 1 November 1951 in a Bengali Hindu family of Dhaka district of the then East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (now Bangladesh), to Gannandra Chandra Roy and Sumoti Roy. [2] Amitav Roy, son of Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, has married Nipun Roy Chowdhury, daughter of Nitai Roy Chowdhury.

Career

Goyeshwar Chandra Roy was involved in progressive politics during his student life. When the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal was formed in 1978, he joined the youth organization. [3] Later, he served as the General Secretary of Jubo Dal. After winning the Fifth National Parliament Election in 1991 and forming the BNP government, he was appointed as the State Minister for the then Ministry of Environment and Forests (now the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change) under the technocrat quota. [3] Subsequently, he was nominated as the Joint Secretary General of BNP and later as a member of the party’s Standing Committee. [3]

In the Ninth National Parliament Election in 2008, Goyeshwar contested from the Dhaka-3 constituency as a BNP candidate for the first time, receiving 78,810 votes but losing to Awami League’s Nasrul Hamid. [4] In the Eleventh National Parliament Election in 2018, he was again nominated by BNP for the same constituency. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Gayeshwar Chandra Roy attacked in Keraniganj". Dhaka Tribune. 25 December 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Election Commission Bangladesh: Candidate Disclosure". Election Commission Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "গয়েশ্বরকে নিয়ে একাট্টা বিএনপি" (in Bengali). Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "সংসদ নির্বাচন ২০১৮ ফলাফল". BBC News বাংলা (in Bengali). Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  5. ↑ "একাদশ সংসদ নির্বাচন - সমকাল" (in Bengali). 13 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2025.


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