The Satya Naidu or Sathyanarayanan Sudarsan Naidu (born 9 November 1992) is the first
Hindu
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member of
Seychelles National Assembly.
He is also the youngest Parliamentarian of the 7th National Assembly. He was elected from the
St. Louis
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constituency in the
2020 Seychellois parliamentary election.
Early life
Naidu was born on the 9 November 1992.
His family traced their origin to the Mayavaram district of
Tamil Nadu
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in India, which his grandfather left in 1917?
Education
Satya studied Law in from the
APIIT Law School, Sri Lanka in 2016 and then did an LLB (Hons) with the
Staffordshire University
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in collaboration with the APIIT Law School, Sri Lanka. He is currently doing a Post-Graduate Certificate in Legal Practice with the
University of Seychelles
University of Seychelles, informally also called UniSey, is the primary institution of higher education in Seychelles. It was established on 17 September 2009.
There are three campuses: the main campus at Anse Royale, the Mont Fleuri campus off ...
.
Political career
From the age of 17, Satya began advocating for Seychelles National Party (
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa ( en, Seychellois Democratic Alliance/Union, LDS) is a liberal political coalition which has governed since 2016 in the Seychelles. They have 25 seats in the National Assembly. The coalition was originally made up of t ...
). According to him, it is the President
Wavel Ramkalawan
Wavel Ramkalawan (born 15 March 1959) is a Seychellois politician and Anglican priest who has been serving as the president of Seychelles since 26 October 2020. Ramkalawan was an opposition MP from 1993 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. He also served a ...
's fighting spirit and the love for the people that inspired him to pursue politics.
He became the Chairperson of the Seychelles National Youth Union and then became the Executive Committee Member of the Seychelles National Party (
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa ( en, Seychellois Democratic Alliance/Union, LDS) is a liberal political coalition which has governed since 2016 in the Seychelles. They have 25 seats in the National Assembly. The coalition was originally made up of t ...
) from 2012 to 2014.
In the
2020 Seychellois parliamentary election, he won the
St. Louis
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
constituency after getting 60% of votes.
2020 National Assembly elections
''ECS'' He is currently a Member of the Bills Committee.
See also
*Indo-Seychellois
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Indo-Seychellois are inhabitants of Seychelles with Indian heritage. With about 10,000 Indo-Seychellois in a total Seychellois population of nearly 100,000, they constitute a minority ethnic group in Seychelles.
Origins
The first Indo-S ...
References
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1992 births
Living people
Seychellois politicians
Seychellois people
Seychellois Hindus
Seychellois people of Indian descent