Tathagata Roy

Tathagata Roy
18th Governor of Meghalaya
In office 27 January 2020 – 18 August 2020
Chief Minister	Conrad Sangma
Preceded by	R. N. Ravi
Succeeded by	Satya Pal Malik
In office 25 August 2018 – 18 December 2019
Chief Minister	Conrad Sangma
Preceded by	Ganga Prasad
Succeeded by	R. N. Ravi
16th Governor of Tripura
In office 20 May 2015 – 25 August 2018
Chief Minister	Manik Sarkar Biplab Kumar Deb
Preceded by	Padmanabha Acharya
Succeeded by	Kaptan Singh Solanki
16th Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
In office 10 July 2016 – 12 August 2016
Chief Minister	Kalikho Pul Nabam Tuki Pema Khandu
Preceded by	Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa
Succeeded by	Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa
6th State President of Bharatiya Janata Party - West Bengal
In office 2002–2006
Preceded by	Ashim Ghosh
Succeeded by	Sukumar Banerjee
Member of National Executive Committee, Bharatiya Janata Party
In office 2002–2015
Personal details
Born	(1945-09-14) 14 September 1945 (age 78)[1] Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Relatives	Saugata Roy[2] (brother)
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Shillong
Alma mater	Bengal Engineering & Science University (B.E.) University of Calcutta (L.L.B)

Tathagata Roy (born 14 September 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the Governor of Tripura from 2015 to 2018 and the Governor of Meghalaya from August 2018 to the end of his term in August 2020.^[3] He was the 6th state president of West Bengal state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2002 to 2006^[4] and a member of the BJP National Executive from 2002 until 2015.^[5]

Roy briefly had additional charge of the office of the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh from July 2016 till August 2016, during which he handled the ouster of Chief Minister Kalikho Pul following a Supreme Court judgement, and swore in Pema Khandu as the new Chief Minister. An engineer by training, Roy is a former professor of construction engineering and the founder-head of the department at Jadavpur University.^[5]