Search OpenSanctions

Bishnu Pada Ray

PEP · Politician

Bishnu Pada Ray is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Bishnu Pada Ray · Ray, Shri Bishnu Pada · विष्णु पद राय · বিষ্ণুপদ রায়				[sources]
Alias	Bishnu Pada Ray · विष्णु पद राय · বিশ্নুপাদ রায় · વિષ્ણુ પદ રાય · ବିଷ୍ଣୁ ପଦ ରାୟ · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1950-06-19				[sources]
Place of birth	Nalanda Mahavihara · Nalanda, Distt. 24 Parganas (West Bengal)				[sources]
Death date	2023-07-25				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	India				[sources]
Citizenship	India				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	andamanmp@gmail.com				[sources]
First name	Bishnu Pada				[sources]
Last name	Ray				[sources]
Political association	Bharatiya Janata Party				[sources]
Title	Shri				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4917364				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Lok Sabha (member, 2014-) · Member of the 12th Lok Sabha · Member of the 16th Lok Sabha				[sources]
Education	B.Com. (Hons.) Educated at Anand Mohan College, Kolkata, West Bengal · University of Calcutta				[sources]
Status	Sitting				[sources]
Address	2, G.R.G. Road, New Delhi - 110 001 · Near Fire Brigade Water Tank Aberdeen Round Village PO Port Blair Port Blair Andaman and Nicobar Islands				[sources]
Last change	2026-05-18	Last processed	2026-05-19	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Andaman & Nicobar Islands politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-08-07

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Rupa Ray Close Associate	spouse	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Lok Sabha	2009-06-01	2014-02-21

Data sources

India Lok and Rajya Sabha Members8,802

Current and historical members of the two houses of the Indian Parliament

India · Parliament of India

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons290,346

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata343,869

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,321

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-c6e0f493-1ec1-49e4-81b5-98b81f97a42d · in-sansad-ls-371

For experts: raw data explorer

Using the API

This page is sourced from our API service. Sign up for an API key and authenticate your request.

We recommend using the /match API function when implementing a screening system.

Equivalent request

GET https://api.opensanctions.org/entities/Q4917364?nested=true

Read about the nested format.

Factsheet Descriptions Relationships Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk