Lutchmeeparsadsing Ramsahok Explained

Lutchmeeparsadsing Ramsahok
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Order:2nd Member of Legislative Assembly for No.12
Primeminister:Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
Term Start:December 1976
Term End:June 1982
Order1:1st Member of Legislative Assembly for No.12
Primeminister1:Anerood Jugnauth
Term Start1:June 1982
Term End1:August 1983
Order2:1st Member of Legislative Assembly for No.12
Primeminister2:Anerood Jugnauth
Term Start2:August 1983
Term End2:April 1987[1]
Birth Date:1948
Birth Place:Mare d'Albert, British Mauritius
Death Place:Mauritius
Party:MMM

MSM

PAL

Lutchmeeparsadsing Ramsahok (1948-2017) was a Mauritian trade unionist, politician and minister.

Early life

Lutchmeeparsadsing Ramsahok (also known as Lutchmeeparsad Ramsewak or Lutchmeeparsad Ramsewok) was born in a Hindu family in Mare d'Albert, Mauritius.[2]

Career as a Trade Unionist

Ramsahok became President of the Tea Industry Workers Union in 1971. Three years later he was elected President of the General Workers Federation (GWF) in 1974.

Political career

As a candidate of the MMM at the 1976 General Elections in Constituency No. 12 (Mahebourg Plaine Magnien) he was elected to the Legislative Assembly where he served as member of the Opposition. In June 1982 Ramsahok was again elected in Constituency No.12 as candidate of MMM-PSM coalition.

In 1983 Ramsahok was one of the founding fathers of the new party MSM which was originally a splinter group from the MMM and led by Anerood Jugnauth.[3]

At the August 1983 elections he was voted back in Parliament as candidate of the Labour-MSM alliance, where he served as Minister of Local Government until April 1987 when he was forced to resign due to the publication of the report of the Judge Maurice Rault's Commission of Enquiry on Drug Trafficking (1986).[4]

Ramsahok did not take part in the 1987 General Elections. He formed a new party called Parti Action Liberal and was a candidate of that party at the general elections of 1991, 1995, 2000, 2010 and 2014 but he was not elected.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dans la presse du 1er avril . L'Express . 2017-04-01.
  2. Web site: Décès de l’ex-ministre Ramsahok : C’était un homme sincère . L'Express . 2017-07-20.
  3. Web site: Drogue: Ramsahok réclame transparence et rigueur . Le Mauricien . 2015-10-25.
  4. Web site: Permal . Jean-Denis . Que sont-ils devenus ? Luchmeeparsadsingh Ramsewok, ancien ministre . L'Express . 2017-07-01.
  5. Web site: Nécrologie : Décès de Lutchmeeparsad Ramsahok . Le Mauricien . 2017-07-22.