Pramatha Nath Roy (1944-2019), popularly known as P.N. Roy, was an Indian

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and was the Minister of State for Development & Planning in the

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. He was an MLA, elected from the

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, 2011 and 2016. He resigned from the ministry when

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withdrew its support to the Mamata Banerjee government in September 2012. Pramatha Nath Roy, son of Rabindra Nath Ray, was born on 7 October 1944. He was a postgraduate in humanities. P.N. Roy died on 31 May 2019 at the end of 75 in

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, causing his constituency to go vacant and have a

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, which was won by

Tapan Deb Singha Tapan Deb Singha is an Indian politician from West Bengal belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He is a former member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Biography Singha graduated from Kolkata University in 1991. He was elected as a ...

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