Anand Singh (Fijian politician)

Anand Kumar Singh (8 August 1948 – 4 December 2020) was a Fijian lawyer and politician of Indian descent.

The family returned from India in 1951 to live at the birthplace of his father, Parmanand Singh, in Yalalevu, Ba.

A member of the Fiji Labour Party, he was elected to represent the Lautoka Rural Indian Communal Constituency in the House of Representatives, and was appointed Attorney-General in the government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, serving until the government was deposed in the Fiji coup of 2000.

On 19 May 2000, he was among the 43 members of the People's Coalition Government, led by Mahendra Chaudhry, taken hostage by George Speight and his band of rebel Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) soldiers from the Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit.

[2][3] Singh died in Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand on 4 December 2020.