Baju Ban Riyan

Baju Ban Riyan (13 March 1941 – 21 February 2020), was an Indian politician from Tripura state. He was a member of the central committee and the secretariat of the Tripura state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). He was also president of the Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti Parishad.
Political career.
Riyan was a member of the Tripura Legislative Assembly from 1967 to 1980. From 1978 to 1979, he was the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Cooperation and Fishery in the Tripura state government. In 1980, he was elected to the 7th Lok Sabha from Tripura East constituency in Tripura state. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009 from the same constituency.