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Biplab Roy Chowdhury

Indian Politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ117599038 ↗
Source-derived summary

Biplab Roy Chowdhury is an Indian politician and the former Minister for Department of Fisheries in the Government of West Bengal. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), elected from the Panskura Purba constituency in the 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2021 West Bengal assembly elections.

Editorial summary

“Biplab Roy Chowdhury” enters the record as indian Politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Biplab, Chowdhury and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2001, 2011, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Biplab, Chowdhury and Indian.
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Why this record matters

“Biplab Roy Chowdhury” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Biplab, Chowdhury and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117599038. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2001, 2011 and 2021.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Biplab Roy Chowdhury” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.