Tathagata Roy

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. He was the 6th president of West Bengal state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2002 to 2006 and a member of the BJP National Executive from 2002 until 2015.

Quotes

• For the Hindus there were relatively good times, like the first five years of the republic, average times like the period of Awami League rule in the late nineties up to September 2001, and the brief rule, in 1991, of temporary President, Mr. Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed. There were bad times like the period of Ziaur Rahman’s, or his widow Khaleda Zia’s rule, or Ershad’s rule around the time when he declared Islam to be the state religion. And there were horrible, abysmal, worse-than-Pakistani times like the period when there was a Writ Petition filed in the Calcutta High Court against the Qur’an, when the disputed structure in Ayodhya, often referred to as the Babri Mosque of Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindus, and after Khaleda’s Bangladesh National Party (BNP)-led coalition came to power in October 2001.
  • Roy, Tathagata. A Suppressed Chapter in History: The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh. New Delhi: Bookwell Publications, 2007. p 316 A Suppressed Chapter in History: The Exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tathagata Roy quoted in Nani Gopal Mahanta - Citizenship Debate over NRC and CAA_ Assam and the Politics of History (2021, SAGE Publications India) p 224

• [S]he (Taslima Nasrin) cites as many as 145 instances of persecution of Hindus in present- day Bangladesh, taking care to mention the precise location where the act was perpetrated, in terms of Zilla, Upazilla and Gram (respectively district, sub-district and village). These are mostly instances of small-scale, localised persecution, quite apart from the type of countrywide atrocities that took place in October 1990 and again in December 1992.
  • quoted in Nani Gopal Mahanta - Citizenship Debate over NRC and CAA_ Assam and the Politics of History (2021, SAGE Publications India) 225