Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy
Office1:Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
Term Start1:1937
Term End1:1945
Constituency1:Burdwan Landholders
Successor1:Uday Chand Mahtab[1]
Birth Date:1894
Birth Place:Calcutta, Presidency division, Bengal Presidency
Death Place:Calcutta, West Bengal

Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy, KCIE (1894, Calcutta 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.[2] 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.[3] [4] [5] He was knighted in 1933 and created KCIE in 1943.[6]

In 1947 Roy was the President of the Calcutta Club.[7] After the first India-Pakistan war, on 6 July 1950 he gave a speech on All India Radio covering an Indo-Pakistani agreement.[8]

From 1958 to 1959, Singh Roy was Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Indian Year Book. Reed, Sir Stanley. 1947.
  2. Web site: Indian Recorder April June 1932. Indian Journalists Association. 22 May 2020.
  3. Web site: West Bengal Legislative Assembly . https://web.archive.org/web/20080918045814/http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/STATISTICAL%5Cwbengal.html . 22 May 2020. 2008-09-18 .
  4. Book: Sen . Dwaipayan . The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal . 2018 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-41776-1 . en.
  5. Book: Corporation . Calcutta (India) Municipal . Calcutta Municipal Gazette . 1967 . Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India. . 348 . en.
  6. Sir B P Singh Roy Knighted . Transport . 1961 . 29 August 2022.
  7. Web site: Past Presidents of the Club . Calcutta Club . 22 May 2020 . 12 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130412052439/http://www.calcuttaclub.in/pastpresidents.html . 2013-04-12 .
  8. Web site: 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 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101607/http://photodivision.gov.in/waterMarkdetails.asp?id=15454.jpg. 22 May 2020. 2016-03-04.
  9. Book: Kochanek . Stanley A . Business and politics in India . 1974 . University of California Press . 179 . 9780520023772 .