Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy

Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office 1937–1945
Succeeded by	Uday Chand Mahtab[1]
Constituency	Burdwan Landholders
Personal details
Born	1894 Calcutta, Presidency division, Bengal Presidency
Died	24 November 1961(1961-11-24) (aged 78–79) 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.^[citation needed]

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]^[page needed]

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]

References

1. Reed, Sir Stanley, ed. (1947). The Indian Year Book.
2. "Indian Recorder April June 1932". Indian Journalists Association. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
3. "West Bengal Legislative Assembly". Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
4. Sen, Dwaipayan (2018). The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-41776-1.
5. Corporation, Calcutta (India) Municipal (1967). Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India. p. 348.
6. "Sir B P Singh Roy Knighted". Transport. 1961. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
7. "Past Presidents of the Club". Calcutta Club. 12 April 2013. Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
8. "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. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
9. Kochanek, Stanley A (1974). Business and politics in India. University of California Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780520023772.