Dewan Chand

For the Indian Army lieutenant general, see Dewan Prem Chand. For the Indian lawyer and politician, see Dewan Chand Saini.

Dewan Chand
Member of the Fijian Parliament
for Laucala Indian
In office
13 May 2006 – 5 December 2006
Preceded byKamlesh Kumar Arya
Succeeded byNone (Parliament disestablished)
Personal details
PartyFiji Labour Party
ProfessionTeacher, Trade Unionist

Dewan Chand is an Indo-Fijian educationist and politician.

Work

Chand had been a secondary school principal, and an active member of the Fiji Teachers Union before joining politics.[1] He was elected to Parliament as a Fiji Labour Party candidate in the 2006 Fijian general election, winning 90% of the votes cast in the Laucala Indian Communal Constituency.[2] He lost his seat when parliament was dissolved following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état.

In October 2009, he was re-elected the northern vice president of Fiji Football Association.[3]

Controversy

In September 2012 he was convicted on indecent assault and defiling a girl under the age of 13 and sentenced to four years imprisonment.[4] The conviction was upheld on appeal.[5] He was subsequently sacked from the Fiji Football Association.[6]

References

  1. ^ FLP names first lot of candidates
  2. ^ "Election results by the count". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2007.
  3. ^ Navua’s Sharma joins Fiji FA chiefs Archived 6 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Chand gets four years". Fiji Sun. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Former FFA VP loses appeal". Fiji Village. 23 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Dewan Chand no longer Fiji FA VP". Fiji Village. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
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