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

Indo-Fijian Indo-Fijians () are Fijians of South Asian descent whose ancestors were Girmitiyas, indentured labourers. Indo-Fijians trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent. Although Indo-Fijians constituted a majority of Fiji's ...

politician. He served in the

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as a nominated member from 1963 to 1966.

Biography

Born in

Nausori Nausori () is a Local government in Fiji, town in Fiji. It had a population of 57,866 at the 2017 census. This makes it the List of cities and towns in Fiji, fourth most populous municipality in the country. Situated 19 kilometers from the Fiji ...

, 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

Navua FC Navua F.C. is a Fijian football team playing in the second division of the Fiji Football Association competitions. They are based in Navua, which is situated on the southern side of the main island of Viti Levu, between the town of Sigatoka and ...

. Following the

1963 elections The following elections occurred in 1963. Africa * 1963 Algerian presidential election * 1963 Chadian parliamentary election * 1963 Moroccan parliamentary election * 1963 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election * 1963 Senegalese general ele ...

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 officiall ...

. 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