Gayeshwar Chandra Roy

Gayeshwar Chandra Roy is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician and former state minister of the Bangladeshi government. He is currently serving as a Standing Committee (the highest policy-making forum) member of the party.^[1] He was also a member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal during the 1970s.

Gayeshwar Chandra Roy
গয়েশ্বর চন্দ্র রায়
Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on 30 July 2023
Minister of State for Environment and Forest
In office 20 March 1991 – 10 October 1993
Prime Minister	Khaleda Zia
Preceded by	Qazi Fazlur Rahman
Succeeded by	Muhammad Yunus
Personal details
Born	(1951-11-01) 1 November 1951 (age 73) Keraniganj, Dhaka
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Political party	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Other political affiliations	Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Before 1978)
Relations	Nitai Roy Chowdhury
Occupation	politician

Early life

Roy was born on 1 November 1951 in a Bengali Hindu family of Dhaka district of the then East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (now Bangladesh), to Gannandra Chandra Roy and Sumoti Roy.^[2]

Career

Roy was involved in progressive politics in his student life. In the 1970s, he was a member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.^[3] He joined Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, a political wing of the BNP, in 1978.^[4] After the 5th parliamentary election in 1991, the BNP formed the government and Roy was made state minister for the Ministry of Environment and Forest (now Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) under the technocrat quota. Later, he was appointed as one of the joint secretaries general of BNP and then a member of the Standing Committee.^{[citation needed]}