Gayeshwar Chandra Roy
Gayeshwar Chandra Roy | |
|---|---|
| গয়েশ্বর চন্দ্র রায় | |
| File:Gayeshwar Chandra Roy (Sunday, 31 August 2025) (cropped).jpg Roy in 2025 | |
| Minister of State for Environment and Forest | |
| In office 20 March 1991 – 10 October 1993 | |
| Prime Minister | Khaleda Zia |
| Preceded by | Qazi Fazlur Rahman |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Yunus |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 November 1951 |
| Party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Before 1978) |
| Relations | |
| Occupation | politician |
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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.
Early life
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
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External links
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