Prof. Saugata Roy is an Indian politician of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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 and currently the Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the Manmohan Singh government.

A National Science Talent Search Scholar and a former student of St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College

Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College

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 and Presidency College, Kolkata

Presidency College, Kolkata

Presidency University, Kolkata, formerly Hindu College and Presidency College, is a unitary, state aided university, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. and one of the premier institutes of learning of liberal arts and sciences in India. In 2002 it was ranked number one by the weekly news magazine...

, he holds a post-graduate degree in Physics

Physics

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. He also holds a degree in Law from Calcutta University. He is a retired professor of Physics

Physics

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 from Asutosh College. A veteran politician from West Bengal, senior leader of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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, he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha

15th Lok Sabha

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected in 2009 during the General Elections in India.- Important members :* Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress, Sasaram, Bihar...

 from the Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)

Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)

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. He had earlier been elected from Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency)

Barrackpore (Lok Sabha constituency)

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 in 1977. He was briefly the Union Minister for Petroleum in the Charan Singh Ministry. He has been elected to the West Bengal State Legislative Assembly five times having been elected from Alipore

Alipore (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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 (3 Terms), Dhakuria

Dhakuria (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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 and Bangaon

Bangaon Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

-1977-2009 Bongaon assembly seat:In the 2009 bye-election caused by the election of sitting MLA, Saugata Roy to the Lok Sabha from Dum Dum, Gopal Seth of Trinamool Congress won the Bangaon seat....

constituencies.

From 1967 to 1969 he was General Secretary, West Bengal Chhatra Parishad and from 1973 to 1977 he was General Secretary, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee.