Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo,

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, GCSK, QC, (born Vīracāmi Riṅkāṭu; 20 October 1920 – 9 September 2000) was a Mauritian politician, minister, the sixth and last

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from March to June 1992.

Early life

Born in 1920 in a

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family, Ringadoo was educated and Port Louis Grammar School and completed his LLB at the London School of Economics in 1948. He was also a founder of the League of Tamils in 1937.

Political career

At the 1953 general elections he was elected for the first time to the Legislative Council in Moka-Flacq, representing Labour Party alongside Ackbar Gujadhur and

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. At the 1959 and 1963 elections he was elected to the Legislative Council at No.17 Quartier Militaire after standing as candidate of Labour Party. In 1967 he was elected to Legislative Council at Constituency No.8 (Quartier Militaire-Moka) as candidate of the

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coalition alongside Mahess Teeluck and Abdool Razack Mohamed. In 1976 he was re-elected at No.8 alongside Mahess Teeluck. He held the portfolio of finance minister of Mauritius during most of these terms. But at the 1982 general elections he was not elected following the landslide victory of MMM-PSM against PTr-PMSD. He served as

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until later in 1992, when he was replaced by the second president,

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Recognition

Ringadoo was knighted in the

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, and following his appointment as Governor-General, appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in June 1986.London Gazette, 10 June 1986
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