Ambika Roy is an Indian politician from

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. In May 2021, he was elected as the member of the

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from Kalyani.

Career

Roy hails from Nutan Birpur, Nakashipara,

Nadia district Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influentia ...

. His is son of late Anil Chandra Roy and grandson of late Amulya Chandra Roy. He is junior of all 5 brothers and 2 sisters. He studied in Patikabari High School near Bethuadahri. Roy passed

LL.B Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

from

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

in 1996 and started practicing law in the

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. He worked as an activist of Bharatiya Janata Party in Kamrup,

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

and was a member of Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Sammanway Samiti. He was also sent to jail for the issue of Bengali refugees in Assam, and harassed by the radical student union group AASU. Later, he contested in

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from Kalyani seat and won the seat on 2 May 2021.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indian politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal University of Calcutta alumni People from Nadia district West Bengal MLAs 2021–2026 {{WestBengal-politician-stub