Perumal Mupnar Explained

Perumal Mupnar
Member of House of Representatives (Fiji)
Yasawa Nawaka Open Constituency
Term Start:2001
Term End:2006
Predecessor:Gunasagaran Gounder
Successor:Adi Sivia Qoro
Title2:Nadi Rural Indian Communal Constituency
Term Start2:2006
Term End2:2006
Predecessor2:Gunasagaran Gounder
Successor2:vacant
Party:Fiji Labour Party

Perumal Mupnar is a former Fijian politician of Indian Tamil descent, who held the Yasawa Nawaka Open Constituency in the House of Representatives for the Fiji Labour Party in the parliamentary election of 2001. In the parliamentary election held on 6–13 May 2006, he transferred to the Nadi Rural Indian Communal Constituency and held it for the FLP.

He was appointed a Senator following the 1999 election.[1]

In 2003 he was one of the 14 FLP parliamentarians offered a cabinet position in the multi - party cabinet by Laisenia Qarase. He was offered the portfolio of Ministry for Transport but the FLP members did not take up the offer as they regarded the portfolios to be trivial.[2]

After the 2006 general election, he became the Fiji Labour Party Whip in the House of Representatives.[3]

He fell out with FLP leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, after speaking out against Chaudhry's choice of Senators following the 2006 election.[4]

References

  1. http://www.apo-tokyo.org/gp/e_publi/gsc/0404APPENDICES.pdf Top Forum on Green Productivity
  2. http://www.fiji.gov.fj/cgi-bin/cms/exec/view.cgi/8/1196/printer PM announces 14 FLP Ministers
  3. http://stuckinfijimud.blogspot.com/2006_06_11_archive.html PM Qarase to discipline Cabinet minister
  4. https://archive.today/20070616142432/http://www.ecsiep.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=631&Itemid=92 Fiji Labour MP says there are no grounds for him to be expelled from party