Praveen Bala 3327726 198537263 2008-03-16T01:44:57Z Mcmullen writes 6069390 '''Praveen Kumar Bala''' is the Mayor of the [[Fiji]]an [[Local government of Fiji|town]] of Ba, a position he has held since 1996. He was reelected unopposed by the Town Council on [[28 October]] [[2005]], after leading his [[National Federation Party (Fiji)|National Federation Party]] (NFP) to a landslide victory in the [[Fiji municipal election, 2005|municipal elections]] held on [[22 October]], taking 14 of the 15 seats. Bala attributed his victory to his party's policies and personnel. The NFP was, he claimed, the only [[List of political parties in Fiji|political party]] promoting multiracialism and harmony, as evidenced by its multiracial slate of candidates. He accused the [[Fiji Labour Party]] of playing "gutter-level politics" in its unsuccessful campaign to oust him. Bala was also an unsuccessful NFP candidate for the [[House of Representatives (Fiji)|House of Representatives]] in the [[Fiji election of 2001|2001 election]]. He polled 28 percent of the vote in the [[Ba East (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji)|Ba East]] [[Indo-Fijian|Indian]] [[Communal Constituencies (Fiji)|Communal Constituency]], a marginal improvement on [[Ram Lajendra]]'s showing in [[Fiji election of 1999|the previous election]] of 1999. He made another attempt in the [[Fiji election of 2006|2006 election]]; his vote dropped marginally, but by considerably less than that of most other NFP candidates in what was a bad year for the party. On [[7 December]] [[2005]], the NFP named Bala to a 3-member "Negotiating Committee," charged with negotiating electoral pacts with other political parties for the parliamentary election due in 2006. {{Fiji-politician-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bala, Praveen}} [[Category:Ba people]] [[Category:Indo-Fijian people]] [[Category:National Federation Party (Fiji) politicians]] [[Category:Fijian Hindus]] [[hi:प्रवीन बाला]]