Prem Singh
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'''Prem Singh''' is a [[Fiji]]an politician and a member of the [[National Federation Party (Fiji)|National Federation Party]] (NFP). An [[Indo-Fijian]], he won the [[Nadi (Open Constituency, Fiji)|Nadi]] [[Open constituencies (Fiji)|Open constituency]] in the [[Fiji election of 2001|election of 2001]], becoming the only candidate of his party to win a [[House of Representatives (Fiji)|parliamentary]] seat. He was subsequently appointed [[Leader of the Opposition (Fiji)|Leader of the Opposition]], after the [[Fiji Labour Party]] leader, [[Mahendra Chaudhry]], declined the office, insisting that his party wanted [[Cabinet (Fiji)|Cabinet]] representation instead.
Singh's tenure as Leader of the Opposition was brief, as a court challenge by his defeated opponent, [[Krishna Prasad]] of the Fiji Labour Party, deprived him of his seat in Parliament when Judge [[Anthony Gates]] ruled on [[8 February]] [[2002]] that more than a thousand votes, most of them for Prasad, that had been disqualified should not have been. Prem Singh appealed this decision to the Supreme Court which ruled that even though the ruling by Judge Anthony Gates was incorrect, the Constitution did not allow for the appeal of a Court of Disputed Returns ruling.<ref>{{cite news|title = Fiji prime minister wants by-election after Prem Singh’s ousting |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=1778}}</ref>
On [[7 December]] [[2005]], the NFP named Singh to a 3-member "Negotiating Committee," charged with negotiating electoral pacts with other [[List of political parties in Fiji|political parties]] for the [[Fiji election of 2006|parliamentary election]] held in [[2006]].
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