Mala Roy (''
née
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'' Sarkar; born 19 November 1957) is an
Indian politician who has been a
Member of Lok Sabha for
Kolkata Dakshin since
2019
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. She is a member of
All India Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...
party. She has been the Chairperson of
Kolkata Municipal Corporation since 2015.
Personal life
Roy was graduated from
Calcutta University in 1976.
She is married to Nirbed Ray, who is the vice president and a former MLA of the Trinamool Congress party.
Political career
In 1995, Roy was elected to the
Kolkata Municipal Corporation as a councillor from
ward no.88. She contested as a candidate of
Indian National Congress party and defeated her nearest rival by a margin of 576 votes. In 2000, she contested as a candidate of
Trinamool Congress party and retained her seat by defeating Swadeshranjan Das of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) by a margin of 3,205 votes. In 2005, she contested as a candidate of the
Nationalist Congress Party and defeated
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (born 23 November 1959) is an Indian physician and politician from West Bengal. She is Chairperson of Banga Janani Bahini, a women's wing of All India Trinamool Congress. She is a member of 15th, 16th and 17th Lok Sabha, re ...
of Trinamool by 1,900 votes. In 2010, she was re-elected, this time as a candidate of Congress party.
Roy contested the
2014 Indian general election
General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...
from
Kolkata Dakshin constituency as a candidate of the Congress party. She came fourth and managed to secure 113,453 votes. On 7 March 2015, Roy who has been a fierce critic of
Mamata Banerjee, rejoined her Trinamool Congress, ahead of the civic polls. After getting elected, she was made the chairperson of the municipal corporation. She became the first woman chairperson of the corporation. During her tenure as ward councillor, she turned the ward no.88 into the greenest ward of the city.
On 12 March 2019, party chairperson
Mamata Banerjee announced that Roy would contest the upcoming
general election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
from
Kolkata Dakshin constituency after the sitting MP
Subrata Bakshi refused to contest as he was interested in strengthening the party's organization. On 23 May, she was elected to the
Lok Sabha after defeating Chandra Kumar Bose of the
Bharatiya Janata Party, her nearest rival by a margin of approximately 155,192 votes. She was polled 573,119 votes compared to Bose's 417,927.
References
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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India MPs 2019–present
Lok Sabha members from West Bengal
Living people
Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal
Politicians from Kolkata
1957 births
Indian National Congress politicians
Nationalist Congress Party politicians
West Bengal politicians
Women in West Bengal politics
Women members of the Lok Sabha
21st-century Indian politicians
21st-century Indian women politicians