Mukul Roy

Mukul Roy
Minister of State for Shipping
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 May 2009
President	Pratibha Patil
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	K. H. Muniyappa
Minister of State for Railways
In office 20 May 2011 – 11 July 2011 Serving with K. H. Muniyappa Bharatsinh Solanki
President	Pratibha Patil
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	E. Ahamed
MP
President	Pratibha Patil
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Constituency	West Bengal
Personal details
Born	Mukul Roy 17 April 1954 (1954-04-17) (age 57) Kanchrapara, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Spouse(s)	Krishna Roy
Children	Subhranshu
Residence	New Delhi (official) Kolkata (private)
Occupation	Politician
Religion	Hinduism
Website	Mukul Roy

Mukul Roy (Bengali: মুকুল রায়; born 17 April 1954) is an Indian politician and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, representing West Bengal. He also serves as the General Secretary of his party, the All India Trinamool Congress. He is the current Minister of State for Shipping in the Council of Ministers of India. After Mamata Banerjee resigned as the Railway Ministerhe was to become the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Roy was handed additional charge of the Railway Ministry after Mamata expressed her desire that her party retain the Railway Ministry and personally recommended Roy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He served as a Minister of State in the Railway Ministry with Manmohan Singh serving as the Cabinet Minister (pro tem) till July 11, 2011.^[1]

On July 11, 2011, Mukul Roy openly defied Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s directive to visit the site of derailment of the Guwahati-Puri Express in Assam. This brought a lot of displeasure among the political circles and he was shunted out of the Railways portfolio in the latest cabinet reshuffle on July 12, 2011.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/mukul-roy-loses-railways-118598
2. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cabinet-rank-eludes-defiant-Mukul-Roy/articleshow/9196295.cms
3. ^ http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/mukul-roy-shunted-out-of-railways/754825.html

External links

• Profile on Rajya Sabha website
• DNA News: Revealed: Why Mukul Roy lashed out at the prime minister

Indian minister.

Persondata
Name	Roy, Mukul
Alternative names
Short description	Government minister
Date of birth	17 April 1954
Place of birth	Kanchrapara, West Bengal, India
Date of death
Place of death