25 Facts About Tathagata Roy

Tathagata Roy was born on 14 September 1945 and is an Indian politician who served as the Governor of Tripura from 2015 to 2018 and the Governor of Meghalaya from 2018 to 2020.

Tathagata Roy has served as the president of the West Bengal state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party and as a member of the BJP National Executive.

An engineer by training, Tathagata Roy is a former professor of construction engineering and the founder-head of the department at Jadavpur University.

Tathagata Roy was born on 14 September 1945 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India to Debesh Chandra Roy and Anila.

Tathagata Roy had a distinguished academic career, having been ranked 6th in the Higher secondary examination of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education as a student of St Lawrence High School, Kolkata and a recipient of the Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship.

Tathagata Roy studied Civil Engineering in Bengal Engineering College Sibpur, when it was affiliated with the University of Calcutta.

Tathagata Roy worked as General Manager, RITES and as Chief Engineer - Design of Metro Railways, Calcutta.

Tathagata Roy then joined Jadavpur University as professor and founder head of the Department of Construction Engineering at its new campus at Salt Lake, Calcutta.

Tathagata Roy is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers and life member of the Indian Council of Arbitration.

Tathagata Roy functioned as an arbitrator in a number of engineering contracts until he was appointed Governor of Tripura.

Tathagata Roy was felicitated as an 'Eminent Engineering Personality' by the Institution of Engineers at the Engineering Congress held at Guwahati in December 2015 and awarded the distinguished Alumni award by Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, formerly Bengal Engineering College Sibpur during the Second Annual Convocation of the institute on 4 March 2016.

Tathagata Roy was conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters by the Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmull Tibrewala University, Vidyanagari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, at a special convocation at Mumbai in May 2016.

Tathagata Roy was further conferred the degree of Doctor of Engineering by the National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura, at the convocation in November 2016.

Tathagata Roy was attracted towards Hindutva, the ideology of Hindu nationalism and joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1986.

Tathagata Roy replaced Ashim Ghosh as president of the West Bengal state unit of the BJP in 2002 and was succeeded by Sukumar Banerjee in 2006.

Tathagata Roy stood as a candidate for election to the Lok Sabha in 2009, standing in the North Kolkata constituency of West Bengal.

Tathagata Roy was appointed Governor of Tripura on 12 May 2015.

Tathagata Roy was transferred and appointed Governor of Meghalaya in August 2018.

Tathagata Roy served till December 2019 and, after a brief medical leave, again from January 2020 until 18 August 2020 completing his five-year tenure on gubernatorial post, handing over the charge to Satya Pal Malik.

Tathagata Roy was appointed as the 16th Governor of Tripura on 20 May 2015.

Tathagata Roy served in this role until 25 August 2018.

Tathagata Roy served in this dual role until 25 October 2019.

Tathagata Roy writes extensively, mostly socio-political articles, both in English and in his native Bengali.

Tathagata Roy has been published in The Statesman, BJP Today, Desh and several others.

Tathagata Roy is the elder brother of Saugata Tathagata Roy, the All India Trinamool Congress MP and former Minister of State for Urban Development.