Mala Roy

Indian politician

Mala Roy
Roy in 2021

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 May 2019
Preceded by	Subrata Bakshi
Constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Chairperson of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 May 2015
Mayor	Firhad Hakim
Deputy	Atin Ghosh
Constituency	Ward No.88
Councillor, Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Incumbent
Assumed office 1995
Constituency	Ward No.88
Mayor-In-Council of Kolkata Municipal Corporation
In office 2000–2005

Personal details
Born	(1957-11-19) 19 November 1957 (age 66) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Political party	Trinamool Congress (1998–2005, 2015–present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (1995–1998, 2010–2015) Nationalist Congress Party (2005–2010)
Spouse	Nirbed Roy
Children	2
Residence	Kolkata
Source: [1]

Mala Roy (née Sarkar; born 19 November 1957) is an Indian politician who has been a Member of Lok Sabha for Kolkata Dakshin since 2019. She is a member of All India Trinamool Congress party. She has been the Chairperson of Kolkata Municipal Corporation since 2015.

Personal life

Roy was graduated from Vidyasagar College for Women affiliated to 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 Kolkata Municipal Corporation as a councillor from ward no.88. She contested as a candidate of Indian National Congress party and defeated her nearest rival by a margin of 576 votes. In 2000, she contested as a candidate of 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 2014 Indian general election from 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 Mamata Banerjee announced that Roy would contest the upcoming general election from 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

^ "Mala Roy". MyNeta. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "মালার পর তৃণমূলে পা বাড়িয়ে নির্বেদ, শঙ্করও" [After Mala, Nirbed and Shankar are on the verge of joining Trinamool]. Ei Samay. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "Winners' duel and a dark horse". The Telegraph. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "Kolkata Dakshin". Elections in India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "West Bengal: Congress leader Mala Roy joins Trinamool Congress". India Today. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "Mala Roy to be KMC chairperson". The Statesman. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "Congress defector Mala Roy named KMC chairperson". The Indian Express. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.