Pranjit Singha Roy

Pranjit Singha Roy
Cabinet Minister, Government of Tripura
Assumed office
2023
Departments
  • Finance
  • Planning and Coordination
  • Information Technology
Preceded byJishnu Dev Varma
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Transport and Tourism
In office
9 March 2018 – 2 March 2023
Personal details
Born
Pranjit Singha Roy

Tripura, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
CabinetState Government of Tripura

Pranjit Singha Roy is an Indian from Tripura. He won as an MLA from 2013, representing Radhakishorpur constituency in Gomati district in Tripura Legislative Assembly.[1][2][3][4]

In 2016, he was one of the six MLAs from Indian National Congress who joined All India Trinamool Congress, due to unhappiness with party because of allying Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[5]

In August 2017, he was one of the six MLAs from All India Trinamool Congress who joined Bharatiya Janata Party after they cross voted against the party lines in 2017 Indian presidential election.[6]

  1. ^ "Assembly Since 1963" (PDF). p. 50.
  2. ^ MLAs refuse to accept Roy as CLP leader
  3. ^ Congress hit by next big crisis in Tripura, 6 MLAs quit party
  4. ^ My Neta
  5. ^ Six Congress MLAs in Tripura join Trinamool
  6. ^ "Recognise Ex-TMC MLAs as BJP Members in Tripura: BJP". Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.