Mala Roy

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Mala Roy
Kolkata Dakshin
Chairperson of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Assumed office
8 May 2015
MayorFirhad Hakim
DeputyAtin Ghosh
ConstituencyWard No.88
Councillor, Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Assumed office
1995
ConstituencyWard No.88
Mayor-In-Council of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
In office
2000–2005
Personal details
Born (1957-11-19) 19 November 1957 (age 66)
Trinamool Congress (1998–2005, 2015–present)
Other political
affiliations		Indian National Congress (1995–1998, 2010–2015)
Nationalist Congress Party (2005–2010)
SpouseNirbed Roy
Children2
ResidenceKolkata
Source: [1]

Mala Roy (

All India Trinamool Congress party. She has been the Chairperson of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
since 2015.

Personal life

Roy was graduated from

Calcutta University in 1976.[1] She is married to Nirbed Ray, who is the vice president and a former MLA of the Trinamool Congress party.[2]

Political career

In 1995, Roy was elected to the

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 of Trinamool by 1,900 votes.[3]
In 2010, she was re-elected, this time as a candidate of Congress party.

Roy contested the

Kolkata Dakshin constituency as a candidate of the Congress party. She came fourth and managed to secure 113,453 votes.[4] On 7 March 2015, Roy who has been a fierce critic of Mamata Banerjee, rejoined her Trinamool Congress, ahead of the civic polls.[5] After getting elected, she was made the chairperson of the municipal corporation. She became the first woman chairperson of the corporation.[6][7] During her tenure as ward councillor, she turned the ward no.88 into the greenest ward of the city.[8]

On 12 March 2019, party chairperson

Kolkata Dakshin constituency after the sitting MP Subrata Bakshi refused to contest as he was interested in strengthening the party's organization.[9] 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.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Mala Roy". MyNeta. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  2. Ei Samay
    . Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. The Telegraph
    . 28 May 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Kolkata Dakshin". Elections in India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. ^ "West Bengal: Congress leader Mala Roy joins Trinamool Congress". India Today. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Mala Roy to be KMC chairperson". The Statesman. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Congress defector Mala Roy named KMC chairperson". The Indian Express. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Mala Roy reaches out to each household, takes green route to win voter's confidence". The Times of India. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  9. ^ "মমতার কেন্দ্রে সুব্রতর 'না', গতবারের কংগ্রেস প্রার্থী মালা রায়ের উপর আস্থা তৃণমূলের" [In Mamata's constituency Subrata says 'no', Trinamool puts faith on former Congress candidate Mala Roy]. One India. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  10. ^ "২ লাখেরও বেশি ভোটে জয়ী তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস প্রার্থী মালা রায়" [Trinamool Congress candidate Mala Roy wins by a margin of more than 2 lakh votes.] (in Bengali). Aajkaal. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.

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