Gayeshwar Chandra Roy Explained

Gayeshwar Chandra Roy
Native Name:গয়েশ্বর চন্দ্র রায়
Office:Minister of State for Environment and Forest
Primeminister:Khaleda Zia
Term Start:20 March 1991
Term End:10 October 1993
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Predecessor:Qazi Fazlur Rahman
Successor:Muhammad Yunus
Birth Date:1 November 1951
Birth Place:Keraniganj, Dhaka
Occupation:politician

Gayeshwar Chandra Roy 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.

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]

Career

Roy was involved in progressive politics in his student life. In the 1970s, he was a member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.[3] He joined Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, a political wing of the BNP, in 1978.[4] After the 5th parliamentary election in 1991, the BNP formed the government and Roy was made state minister for the Ministry of Environment and Forest (now Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) under the technocrat quota. Later, he was appointed as one of the joint secretaries general of BNP and then a member of the Standing Committee.

Notes and References

  1. News: Gayeshwar Chandra Roy attacked in Keraniganj . Dhaka Tribune . 23 January 2019 . 25 December 2018.
  2. Web site: Election Commission Bangladesh: Candidate Disclosure . Election Commission Bangladesh . 23 January 2019 . 25 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181225224450/http://119.40.90.133/asset2013/index2018.php . dead .
  3. News: bn:ইনু ‘জাতীয় বেয়াদব’: গয়েশ্বর . https://m.bdnews24.com/bn/detail/politics/1312481 . bdnews24 . 31 March 2017 . bn.
  4. News: bn:গয়েশ্বরকে নিয়ে একাট্টা বিএনপি . https://samakal.com/politics/article/1808769/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF . Samakal . 23 January 2019 . bn.