Gayeshwar Chandra Roy is a

Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (), popularly abbreviated as BNP (), is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by President of Bangladesh, President Ziaur Rahman, wit ...

(BNP) politician and former

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of the

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. He is currently serving as a

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(the highest policy-making forum) member of the party. He was also a member of

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal () is a List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The party was founded by Serajul Alam Khan. The party was dominant during the 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency. The current party presid ...

during the 1970s.

Early life

Roy was born on 1 November 1951 in a

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family of

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of the then

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(now

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), to Gannandra Chandra Roy and Sumoti Roy.

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. 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

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(now the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change) under the technocrat quota. Subsequently, he was nominated as the Joint Secretary General of BNP and later as a member of the party’s Standing Committee. In the Ninth National Parliament Election in 2008, Goyeshwar contested from the

Dhaka-3 Dhaka-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008. Boundaries The constituency encompasses five union parishads of Keraniganj Upazila: Aganagar, Konda, Subhadya, Tegharia, and Zinjira. ...

constituency as a BNP candidate for the first time, receiving 78,810 votes but losing to Awami League’s

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. In the Eleventh National Parliament Election in 2018, he was again nominated by BNP for the same constituency.

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* Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people Bangladeshi Hindus State ministers of environment and forests of Bangladesh 1951 births People from Dhaka District Politicians from Dhaka Division {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub