SHILLONG: Tathagata Roy will be sworn in as Governor of Meghalaya on Saturday at Raj Bhavan.
Transferred from Tripura, Roy is all set to replace incumbent Governor, Ganga Prasad who has been posted as governor of Sikkim even before completing a year in office in Meghalaya.
In his political career, Roy was the BJP president in West Bengal from 2002 to 2006. The 73-year-old politician was a swayamsevak since 1985 and was member of the BJP national executive since 2002.
Roy is a former professor and founder-head of the Department of Construction Engineering at Jadavpur University in Kolkata.
The academician-turned-politician, who is originally from Brahmanbaria in Bangladesh, has authored a few books and written several periodicals for leading Bengali publications.