Davendra Singh, a virtually unknown small businessman, managed to persuade the NFP Youth Wing, which had earlier been shunned by Koya, to support him to oppose Rakkha.
Singh demanded that a local person be selected by NFP for the vacant seat but when he was ignored by the Party, he nominated himself for the election.
The election result triggered a series of events which led to the decline of the NFP and the rise of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP).
For the 1987 general election, the NFP–Labour Coalition chose him as a candidate for the Ba Indian Communal Constituency which he won easily,[1] but was a member of Parliament for a month when the military coup of 1987 put a temporary halt to his political career.
In 1994 he stood for the Ba East/Tavua Rural Indian Constituency and lost narrowly to his Fiji Labour Party opponent.