Tathagata Roy
| Tathagata Roy | |
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| তথাগত রায় | |
| Governor of Tripura | |
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Assumed office 20 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Padmanabha Acharya |
| President of Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal | |
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In office 2002–2006 |
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| Preceded by | Ashim Ghosh |
| Succeeded by | Sukumar Banerjee |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 September 1944 Kolkata, West Bengal |
| Nationality | Indian |
Tathagata Roy (Bengali: তথাগত রায়) is an Indian politician, engineer and author. He was appointed as the Governor of Tripura in May 2015 and for some time in 2016 also held the additional charge of Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, having been both preceded and succeeded by J.P.Rajkhowa. During his stint as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh handled the ouster of Chief Minister Kalikho Pul following a Supreme Court judgement and swore in Pema Khandu as the new Chief Minister. He had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) He was president of the West Bengal state unit of BJP from 2002 till 2006. He was a member of the BJP National Executive, the party's central policy making body from 2002 till May 2015.
Tathagata Roy was born on 14 September 1944 in Kolkata to Debesh Chandra Roy and Anila (nee Dutta). He had a distinguished academic career, having been a rank holder in the school leaving examination and a Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search Scholar. He studied Civil Engineering in Bengal Engineering College Sibpur (currently Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur), when it was affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Later he joined Indian Railways Service of Engineers. He worked as General Manager, RITES and as Chief Engineer -Design of Metro Railways, Calcutta. He also holds a Law Degree of Calcutta University.
Roy took voluntary retirement from the Railways in 1990. He then joined Jadavpur University as professor and founder head of the Department of Construction Engineering at its new campus at Salt Lake, Calcutta. He is a former Chairman Board of Governors of TTTI Calcutta (2000 to 2005). He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers and life member of the Indian Council of Arbitration.. He functioned as an Arbitrator in a number of Engineering Contracts till he became Governor.
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