 In 1971, he retired from politics and led an active life spending much of his time founding and organizing the B.C.Roy Memorial Committee under whose auspices land was acquired in eastern Kolkata to form a children's garden and activity centre named the Bidhan Shishu Udyan.Although detached from active politics, he maintained friendly relations with many of his former political colleagues, such as Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who visited the Udyan when he was the President of India.Although he used to be heavily criticized by the communists and socialists in his active days, it was the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Benoy Choudhury, who often met him in his retirement days.

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