Parmod Chand (sometimes known as Pramod Chand) (born 1955 or 1956) is a

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an politician and former member of the

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. He is a member of the

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(NFP).

Background and family life

Chand was born in

Labasa Labasa (, ) is a town in Fiji with a population of 28,500 at the 2010 census. Labasa is located in Macuata Province, in the north-eastern part of the island of Vanua Levu, and is the largest town on the island. The town itself is located on a ...

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. His father was NFP politician Vishnu Prasad. He worked as a businessman and sugarcane farmer, and ran a bus company. He has served as president of the Fiji Bus Operators Association. Chand is also a pastor for the Assemblies of God church in

Political career

Chand served on the Labasa town council between 1992 and 1996. He was first elected to the

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in the 1994 general election, winning the Macuata East Indian Communal Constituency for the NFP. He contested the Macuata East Open Constituency in the

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and 2006 elections, losing on both occasions by large margins. In January 2006, Pramod Chand as the NFP's Senior Vice-President condemned the

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for offering support to the Military to depose the government. "The FLP is now trying to return to power not through the ballot box but by the barrel of the gun," he said. He called the call "treasonous" and "treachery of the highest order", and called for a police investigation into public statements from the FLP's President, Jokapeci Koroi. When elections were restored after the

2006 Fijian coup d'état The Fijian coup d'état of December 2006 was a coup d'état in Fiji carried out by Commodore (rank), Commodore Frank Bainimarama against Prime Minister of Fiji, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and President Josefa Iloilo. It was the culminatio ...

he contested the 2014 election for the NFP, winning 1014 votes. This was not enough to secure election, but he re-entered parliament in 2017 following the resignation of former NFP MP

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. In December 2017 Chand was questioned by police over allegations of sedition, however no charges were laid. Chand stood as a candidate in the 2018 election but gained only 864 votes and was not re-elected. He stood again at the 2022 election, winning 1857 votes, but again missed out on re-election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chand, Pramod Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fijian Protestant ministers and clergy Politicians from Labasa Politicians from Nadi Fijian politicians of Indian descent National Federation Party politicians Indian members of the House of Representatives (Fiji) Indian members of the Parliament of Fiji