Vijay Singh is a former
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
an politician of
Indian descent, who represented the
Vuda Open Constituency in the
House of Representatives for the
Fiji Labour Party (FLP) from 2001 to 2006, having retained the seat at the
2001 parliamentary election with more than 57 percent of the votes cast.
In 2003, Singh was offered the portfolio of Minister for Fair Trading & Consumer Affairs, together with 13 other FLP parliamentarians who were offered cabinet positions by the Prime Minister,
Laisenia Qarase, but the FLP refused to accept this offer.
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The parliamentary election held on 6–13 May 2006 was marked by intrigue. The FLP replaced Singh as its candidate with then-Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
Felix Anthony, on what Singh claims was an undertaking that he would be given Anthony's seat in the Senate. This did not eventuate, and Singh pursued legal action against the FLP leader, Mahendra Chaudhry
Mahendra Pal Chaudhry ( hif, महेन्द्र पाल चौधरी; born 9 February 1942) is a Fijian politician and the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. Following a historic election in which he defeated the long-time former lead ...
, for reneging on the promise that he was alleged to have made. Chaudhry, for his part, denied having given any such promise.
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Fiji Labour Party politicians
Indian members of the House of Representatives (Fiji)
People's Democratic Party (Fiji) politicians
Politicians from Lautoka
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