Mukul Roy
| Mukul Roy | |
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| MP of Rajya Sabha for West Bengal | |
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Assumed office 3 April 2012 |
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| Minister of Railways | |
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In office 20 March 2012 – 21 September 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Dinesh Trivedi |
| Succeeded by | C. P. Joshi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 April 1954 Kanchrapara, West Bengal India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Trinamool Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Krishna Roy |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | New Delhi Kolkata |
| Alma mater | Calcutta University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Mukul Roy (Bengali: মুকুল রায়; born 17 April 1954) was the Railway Minister of India. He is an Indian politician and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, representing West Bengal. He also serves as the National Vice-President of his party, the All India Trinamool Congress. After Mamata Banerjee resigned as the Railway Minister she was to become the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Roy was handed additional charge of the Railway Ministry after Mamata didi expressed her desire that her party retain the Railway Ministry and personally recommended Mr. Roy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He served as a Minister of State in the Railway Ministry with Manmohan Singh serving as the Cabinet Minister (pro tem) till 11 July 2011. Mukul Roy's Railway ministry will run a special train called "DU Gyan Uday Express" a Bengali worded statement, which will take 1000 students of Delhi University to places like Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Goa and Bangalore during the summer break of 2012.
He did his BSc (Part I) from Calcutta University. He also earned an MA degree in public administration from the Madurai Kamaraj University in 2006.
On 11 July 2011, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directed Mukul Roy to visit the site of derailment of the Guwahati-Puri Express in Assam he openly defied him. This brought a lot of displeasure among the political circles and he was shunted out of the Railways portfolio in the latest cabinet reshuffle on 12 July 2011.
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