Chandra Pal Tara Singh Bains (died 5 June 1983) was an

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politician. He served in the Legislative Council as a nominated member from 1963 to 1966.

Biography

Born in

Nausori Nausori () is a town in Fiji. It had a population of 57,866 at the 2017 census. This makes it the fourth most populous municipality in the country. Situated 19 kilometers outside of Suva, it forms one pole of the burgeoning Suva-Nausori corri ...

, Singh was educated at Columbus School in

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.Chandra Pal Singh
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', August 1983, pp73–74 He began working at Suva Motors in 1940, later becoming a dairy farmer and owning a bus company and sawmill. He was also a soccer administrator and established

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. Following the

1963 elections The following elections occurred in 1963. * 1963 Cardinal electors in Papal conclave * 1963 Papal conclave Africa * 1963 Chadian parliamentary election * 1963 Moroccan parliamentary election * 1963 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election ...

he was appointed to the Legislative Council as a nominated member. In 1964 he was appointed to the board of the

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. In 1965 he was part of the Fijian constitutional conference in London. He contested the Indo-Fijian Central cross-voting seat in 1966 general elections as an independent, but finished third behind the candidates of the Alliance Party and

Federation Party The Federation Party was Fiji's first formal political party. The Citizens Federation, which had won three of the four seats reserved for Indo-Fijians at the 1963 elections, decided to formalize its role as a political party, which was offici ...

. He died in Suva in June 1983 at the age of 69.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, C.P. People from Nausori Fijian Hindus Fijian businesspeople Fijian farmers Fijian justices of the peace Members of the Legislative Council of Fiji 1983 deaths