Narsi Raniga | |
Member of House of Representatives (Fiji) South Central National Constituency | |
Term Start: | 1987 |
Term End: | 1987 |
Predecessor: | Ramanlal Kapadia |
Birth Date: | 1942 |
Birth Place: | Ba, Fiji |
Death Date: | 24 July 2017 |
Death Place: | Fiji |
Party: | Alliance Party |
Spouse: | Pushpa Raniga |
Profession: | Civil Servant |
Narsi Raniga (born 1942) is a Fiji Indian who has held senior civil service posts in Fiji and has also been a member of the House of Representatives of Fiji.
He was born in Ba and completed the Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland. After a brief period as a teacher, he did postgraduate courses at the University of Auckland and Cambridge University. On his return to Fiji, he joined the civil service. He worked as Commissioner of the Western Division,[1] secretary for Foreign Affairs, High Commissioner to India,[2] and permanent secretary to the Public Service Commission.[3]
In 1987 he resigned from the civil service to contest the South Central National Constituency for the Alliance Party.[4] He won the seat with a comfortable margin, but his party lost the election and he sat on the opposition bench for a month when the military coup of 1987 prematurely ended his political career.[5]