Gayeshwar Chandra Roy
Profile
- Party
- BNP
- Constituency
- Dhaka-3
- Terms
- 1
- Disclosed wealth
- —
- Criminal cases
- 0
- Education
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- Cabinet role
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Active as BNP Standing Committee member and MP; vocal advocate for Hindu minority rights within BNP's framework; member of Business Advisory Committee and Committee on Privileges in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad.
Recent activity
- 2026-05-05 statement Spoke to journalists after BNP tributes to founder Ziaur Rahman, expressing confidence that reserved-seat female MPs will serve broader public aspirations and reaffirming commitment to BNP's 31-point agenda. ↗
- 2026-02-17 appointment Sworn in as MP for Dhaka-3 (constituency 176) on the first sitting day of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad; appointed to Business Advisory Committee and Committee on Privileges. ↗
- 2026-02-13 statement Declared 'I am son of the soil' after winning Dhaka-3, and said his victory as a Hindu candidate sends a message that minorities can trust BNP for equal rights. ↗↗
- 2026-02-12 constituency_visit Cast his vote at Arakul Government Primary School polling centre at 8:00 AM; publicly alleged that Jamaat supporters had entered multiple polling centres during the previous night. ↗
Provenance & notes
EC constituency number 176 confirmed by Wikipedia's List of constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad and banglastream.net; matches the user's supplied number -- no correction needed. Constituency covers 5 unions of Keraniganj Upazila only (Aganagar, Konda, Subhadya, Tegharia, Zinjira); boundary not redrawn in 2024 (Dhaka-2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14 were redrawn; Dhaka-3 was not). Vote counts per BSS (official government wire) and Wikipedia: 99,163 (Roy) / 83,264 (Shahinur Islam). Prothom Alo English edition reports slightly different figures (98,785 / 82,232); BSS and Wikipedia are used as authoritative. total_valid_votes (193,292) derived from Wikipedia-stated share 51.30%: 99,163 / 0.5130 = 193,292; cross-check: 83,264 / 193,292 = 43.08% matches Wikipedia. Margin: 51.30 - 43.08 = 8.22 pp. Total registered voters per banglastream: 3,62,161. Roy was appointed State Minister for Environment and Forest and State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock (1991-1996) via technocrat quota under PM Khaleda Zia -- he was NOT directly elected in 1991; 2026 is his first elected parliamentary term, so term_count = 1 and prior_terms is empty. Roy born 1 November 1951, age 74 as of verification date. EC affidavit wealth and criminal_cases data not publicly accessible at time of verification; left null/empty per EC-only rule. Committee memberships (Business Advisory Committee, Committee on Privileges) confirmed by UNB report on first-day Jatiya Sangsad sitting, 17 February 2026.
Sources
- https://www.bssnews.net/national-parlament-election-2026/360606
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka-3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayeshwar_Chandra_Roy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_Jatiya_Sangsad
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/2b9cr33b9c
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/mwqkjeky1e
- https://unb.com.bd/category/Bangladesh/five-js-committees-formed-on-first-day/181454
- https://www.bssnews.net/news/384286
- https://banglastream.net/bangladesh-election-2026/seats/dhaka-3