Pramatha Nath Ray


Pramatha Nath Roy, popularly known as P. N. Roy, was an Indian politician and was the Minister of State for Development & Planning in the Government of West Bengal. He was an Member of the [Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA], elected from the Kaliaganj Assembly constituency in 1996 [West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996], 2001 West [Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001], 2011 [West Bengal state assembly election|2011] and 2016 [West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016].
He resigned from the ministry when Congress withdrew its support to the First [Mamata Banerjee ministry|Mamata Banerjee government] in September 2012.

Personal life

Pramatha Nath Roy was a postgraduate in humanities.

Death

P. N. Roy died on 31 May 2019 at the age of 74 in Kolkata, triggering a bypoll in the constituency, which was won by Tapan [Deb Singha] of All India Trinamool Congress.