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

Goyeshwar Chandra Roy was involved in progressive politics during his student life. When the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal was formed in 1978, he joined the youth organization.^[3] Later, he served as the General Secretary of Jubo Dal. After winning the Fifth National Parliament Election in 1991 and forming the BNP government, he was appointed as the State Minister for the then Ministry of Environment and Forests (now the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change) under the technocrat quota.^[3] Subsequently, he was nominated as the Joint Secretary General of BNP and later as a member of the party’s Standing Committee.^[3]

In the Ninth National Parliament Election in 2008, Goyeshwar contested from the Dhaka-3 constituency as a BNP candidate for the first time, receiving 78,810 votes but losing to Awami League’s Nasrul Hamid.^[4] In the Eleventh National Parliament Election in 2018, he was again nominated by BNP for the same constituency.^[5]