Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy, KCIE (1894, Calcutta 24 November 1961, Calcutta) was an Indian politician.

Biography

Singh Roy studied at the Hindu School and the

Presidency University, Kolkata Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...

, and received a Bachelor and Master of Laws from the Law College Kolkata. Later he was a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court. In 1921 Roy was elected to the

Bengal Legislative Council The Bengal Legislative Council ( was the legislative council of British Bengal (now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal). It was the legislature of the Bengal Presidency during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After reforms we ...

in British India and was Minister of Local Self-Government in 1930. On 1 April 1932, he introduced a bill on a municipal code. Singh Roy was Sheriff of Calcutta and from 1937 to 1941 in the cabinet of AK Fazlul Huq with responsibility for the Treasury in Bengal. From 1943 to 1947 he was chairman of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.He was knighted in 1933 and created KCIE in 1943. In 1947 Roy was the President of the Calcutta Club. After the first India-Pakistan war, on 6 July 1950 he gave a speech on All India Radio covering an Indo-Pakistani agreement. From 1958 to 1959, Singh Roy was Chairman of the

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group based in India. History Established in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by Indian businessman G.D. Birla an ...

(FICCI).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy 1894 births 1961 deaths Bengali politicians Indian knights Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire