Santosh Kumar Roy was an Indian politician from the state of Assam. He was a former Member of

Assam Legislative Assembly The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Me ...

for Katlicherra. He was the father of

Gautam Roy Gautam Roy (born 14 November 1948) is a politician of the Hailakandi District of Assam. He was six times MLA from Katlicherra constituency. He was also minister in Hiteswar Saikia and the Tarun Gogoi led Congress ministry several times. Gaut ...

, father in law of

Mandira Roy Mandira Roy is an Indian politician from the state of Assam. She is a former member of Assam Legislative Assembly, having won a by-election in 2013 for Algapur. Education and personal life Roy has an H.S.L.C. from Indre Kumari Girls Higher ...

, grandfather of

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and grandfather in law of Daisy Roy.

Personal life

Roy married Shefalika Roy in 1939 and had 5 daughters and one son.

Political career

In the

1972 Assam Legislative Assembly election Elections to the Assam Legislative Assembly were held in March 1972 to elect members of 114 constituencies in Assam, India. The Indian National Congress won the popular vote and a majority of seats and Sarat Chandra Singha was re-appointed as t ...

, Roy was the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

candidate for the constituency of Katlicherra. He received 23988 votes, 54.02% of the total vote. He defeated his nearest

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opponent by 6851 votes. He served until the

1978 Assam Legislative Assembly Election The 1978 Assam Legislative Assembly election was held to elect members for 126 assembly seats to constitute the seventh Assam Legislative Assembly. The Janata Party formed the first non-Congress government led by Golap Borbora with 53 seats on Ma ...

, where the former MLA for Katlicherra, Gourishankar Roy, was instead the Congress candidate for Katlicherra and won the election. His son,

, would later go on to represent the same constituency.

References

Assam MLAs 1972–1978 Year of death missing Year of birth missing Place of death missing Place of birth missing Indian National Congress politicians from Assam {{Assam-INC-politician-stub