Current Affairs - Awards and Honours - Discussion

Fiji's Indian-origin former Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry has been selected for the V K Krishna Menon Award for his contribution to the Indian diaspora. The award was announced by the director of V K Krishna Menon Institute Cyriac Maprayil recently. Mahendra Chaudhry is the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. He became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister on 19 May 1999. But he had to step down exactly one year later. Mahendra Chaudhry's ancestors are from Rohtak, Haryana. His paternal grandfather went to Fiji in 1902. He worked in sugarcane plantations.