Nitya Nand Reddy (born 1950) is a Fiji Indian has been an accountant and a unionist before being elected to the

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. He was born in

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, Fiji and after completing

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from the

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in 1972, started working for the

Fiji Sugar Corporation Fiji Sugar Corporation (FSC) is the government-owned sugar milling company in Fiji having monopoly on production of raw sugar in Fiji. It is also the largest public enterprise in the country employing nearly 3,000 people, while another 200,000 o ...

(FSC) as an accountant. He served as the President of the Sugar Milling Staff Officers Association for four terms and was a founding Vice-President of the

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. In 1986 he ran as a Fiji Labour Party candidate in the

Lautoka Lautoka () is the second largest Local government in Fiji, city in Fiji. It is on the west coast of the island of Viti Levu, in the Ba Province of the Western Division, Fiji, Western Division. Lying in the heart of Fiji's sugar cane-growing r ...

City Council election and was dismissed by the FSC for this. For the 1987 general election, the

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chose him as a candidate for the South Western Indian National Constituency which he won easily, but was a member of Parliament for a month when the military coup of 1987 prematurely ended his political career.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reddy, Nitya Nand Fiji Labour Party politicians Indian members of the House of Representatives (Fiji) Fijian trade unionists Fiji sugar industry University of the South Pacific alumni 1950 births Living people Fijian Hindus Politicians from Lautoka