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Sathyanarayanan Sudarsan "Satya" Naidu (born 9 November 1992) is the first
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member of
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. He is also the youngest Parliamentarian of the 7th National Assembly. He was elected from the
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constituency in the 2020 Seychellois parliamentary election.


Early life

Naidu was born on the 9 November 1992. His family traced their origin to the
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of
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in India, which his grandfather left in 1917.


Education

Satya studied Law in from the APIIT Law School, Sri Lanka in 2016 and then did an LLB (Hons) with the
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in collaboration with the APIIT Law School, Sri Lanka. He is currently doing a Post-Graduate Certificate in Legal Practice with the
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.


Political career

From the age of 17, Sathya began advocating for Seychelles National Party (
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). According to him, it is the President
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's fighting spirit and the love for the people that inspired him to pursue politics. He became the Chairperson of the Seychelles National Youth Union and then became the Executive Committee Member of the Seychelles National Party (
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (, LDS) is a liberal political coalition which has governed since 2020 in the Seychelles. They have 25 seats in the National Assembly. The coalition was originally made up of the four main opposition parties: the Seyc ...
) from 2012 to 2014. In the 2020 Seychellois parliamentary election, he won the
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constituency after getting 60% of the votes. He is currently a Member of the Bills Committee. On 28 March 2022, he was elected as the Executive Committee member of Linyon Demokratik Seselwa in a heavily contested election amongst other party stalwarts. On 7 May 2022, he was elected to lead the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa’s (UCLG Africa) network of locally elected youth of Africa for the continent’s eastern region.


See also

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Naidu, Satya 1992 births Living people Seychellois politicians Seychellois Hindus Seychellois people of Indian descent Linyon Demokratik Seselwa politicians Members of the National Assembly (Seychelles) Members of the 7th National Assembly (Seychelles)