Chandrika Roy is an Indian politician from Saran district of Bihar, India. He was a Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly (2015-2020) representing

Parsa (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Parsa Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. Overview As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 121 Parsa Assembly constituency is composed of th ...

from RJD Party. Now he is in the Janata Dal (United) Party.

Political career

Roy made entry into politics in 1985 as member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from

. Again in

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

and

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

, he won from the same constituency. In

October 2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; " Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discover ...

and

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, he lost to Chhotelal Rai. He also held the position as Minister of Transport Department of Government of Bihar from 2015 to 2017. Currently, he is serving as Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from

since

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. He quit the

Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: ''National People's Party'') is an Indian political party, based in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has tradit ...

due to the marital dispute between his daughter and RJD president Lalu Prasad Yadav's son

Tej Pratap Yadav Tej Pratap Yadav (born 16 April 1988) is an Indian politician and cabinet minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department in the Government of Bihar. He was MLA of Bihar Legislative Assembly from the Mahua constituency as a member ...

Personal life

Chandrika Roy is the second son of the five sons of

Daroga Prasad Rai Daroga Prasad Rai (2 September 1922 - 15 April 1981) was an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. He was the Chief Minister of Bihar in 1970 for ten months, but Congress was reduced to a minority in December 1970 and Karpoori Thakur became ...

. He is married to Purnima Priyadarshini and has 3 children, namely Apurva Roy, Aishwarya Roy and Aayushi Roy. Chandrika Rai's daughter Aishwarya Roy married

, the eldest son of Lalu Prasad Yadav on 12 May 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Chandrika Bihar MLAs 1985–1990 Bihar MLAs 1990–1995 Bihar MLAs 1995–2000 Bihar MLAs 2000–2005 Bihar MLAs 2015–2020 1957 births Living people Rashtriya Janata Dal politicians Janata Dal politicians Janata Dal (United) politicians People from Saran district Transport Ministers of Bihar