Vinubhai Patel is a
Fiji Indian politician who was elected to the
House of Representatives
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of
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 ...
in 1987.
For the
1987 general election, the
NFP–Labour Coalition
NFP–Labour Coalition was the coalition of the National Federation Party and Fiji Labour Party under the leadership of Timoci Bavadra, formed in 1987 to contest that year's general election. The coalition won the election with 28 seats in the Hous ...
chose him as a candidate for the Lautoka Indian Communal 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.
References
National Federation Party politicians
Indian members of the House of Representatives (Fiji)
Fijian Hindus
Living people
Politicians from Lautoka
Year of birth missing (living people)
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