Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy

Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy (* 1894 in Calcutta , † November 24, 1961 ibid) was an Indian politician and cousin and private secretary of the Maharaja of Benares, Aditya Narayan Singh .

Biography

Singh Roy studied at the Hindu School and the Presidency University, Kolkata, received a Bachelor and Master of Laws from the Law College Kolkata and later a lawyer at 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 April 1, 1932, he introduced a bill on municipal code.[1] Singh Roy was Sheriff of Calcutta and from 1937 to 1941 in the cabinet of AK Fazlul Huq for the Treasury in Bengal responsible. 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, he gave a speech on an Indo-Pakistani agreement on July 6th, 1950 All India Radio.[6]

From 1958 to 1959, Singh Roy was Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).[7]

References
  1. "Indian Recorder April June 1932". Indian Journalists Association. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  2. "WEST BENGAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY". Archived from the original on 2008-09-18. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  3. 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.
  4. Corporation, Calcutta (India) Municipal (1967). Calcutta Municipal Gazette. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India. p. 348.
  5. "PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE CLUB". Calcutta Club. 12 April 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  6. "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 2016-03-04. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  7. Kochanek, Stanley A (1 January 1974). Business and politics in India. University of California Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780520023772.
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