Shaoni Singha Roy

Roy is from Murshidabad, West Bengal. She married Debashish Singha Roy, a doctor. She completed her BSc in 1993 at Gurudas College which is affiliated with Calcutta University.^[1]

Roy won from Murshidabad Assembly constituency representing the Indian National Congress in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. She polled 94,579 votes and defeated her nearest rival, Ashim Krishna Bhatta of the All India Trinamool Congress, by a margin of 25,139 votes.^[4][5][6] She first became an MLA winning the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, also on a Congress ticket. In 2011, she polled 75,441 votes and defeated her nearest rival, Bibhas Chakraborty of All India Forward Bloc, by a margin of 6,352 votes.^[2][6] She shifted to Trinamool Congress before the 2021 election and contested on a Trinamool ticket but lost the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election to Gouri Shankar Ghosh of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 2491 votes.^[7][8]