Chandra Prakash Sharma | |
Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term1: | 1977 |
Predecessor1: | Vijay Parmanandam |
Successor1: | Vijay Parmanandam |
Constituency1: | Suva Rural |
Party: | National Federation Party |
Death Date: | 1979 |
Death Place: | Melbourne, Australia |
Chandra Prakash Sharma (died 1979) was an Indo-Fijian civil servant and politician. He briefly served as a member of the House of Representatives in 1977.
Sharma studied at the University of Otago until he was deported, later qualifying as a chartered accountant and joined the civil service,[1] where he became chief accountant at the Treasury. In the early 1970s he was seconded from the Ministry of Finance to the Savings Bank of Fiji.[2] He also served as president of the Fiji Public Servants' Association.[3]
A member of the National Federation Party, he contested the Suva Rural seat in the March 1977 elections and defeated incumbent (and former NFP member) Vijay Parmanandam and Vijay R. Singh.[1] However, following the party's split later in the year, he did not run for re-election in the September 1977 elections.
He died in Melbourne in 1979.[4] His son Neil later also served as an MP.[5]