Santosh Roy

Santosh Kumar Roy (1926–2012) was an Indian politician from Cooch Behar, northern West Bengal, belonging to the Indian National Congress. He represented the Cooch Behar South constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 1967 to 1975. Roy was the West Bengal state government Public Works and Housing minister for a short stint in 1971 and then the Minister for Refugee Rehabilitation, Relief and Social Welfare from 1972 until his resignation in early 1975 following an investigation by the Wanchoo Commission. He was the chairman of the Jute Corporation of India for less than a year in 1976-1977, before returning to electoral politics and unsuccessfully contesting the 1977, 1982 and 1987 West Bengal elections. He was one of the secretaries of the Congress Party in West Bengal in the early 1980s. Provided by Wikipedia