Bakshi Balwant Singh Mal

Bakshi Balwant Singh Mal MBE (died 6 January 1986) was an Indo-Fijian businessman and politician.

Mal immigrated to Fiji in the mid-1930s after finishing college in Punjab, later earning a degree at Victoria University in Wellington.

[1] He took over his uncle's aerated water factory and subsequently became an estate agent and property developer.

[1] He also helped found Deenhandhu Primary School and the Indian High School and served as a governor of Indian College.

[2] Having been being heavily involved in the establishment of the Federation Party in 1964,[3] he was appointed to the Senate as one of the nominees of Leader of the Opposition Sidiq Koya in 1976, serving until 1982.