[citation needed] He was first elected in Mauritian Parliament in 1976 under the MMM in the Constituency No 12 (Mahebourg).
12 (Mahebourg Plaine Magnien) he was elected to the Legislative Assembly where he served as member of the Opposition.
[citation needed] In 1983 Ramsahok was one of the founding fathers of the new party MSM which was originally a splinter group from the MMM and led by Anerood Jugnauth.
[3] At the August 1983 elections he was voted back in Parliament as candidate of the Labour-MSM alliance, where he served as Minister of Local Government until April 1987 when he was forced to resign due to the publication of the report of the Judge Maurice Rault's Commission of Enquiry on Drug Trafficking (1986).
[4] The drug allegations were unfounded and dismissed and August 2, 1990, Sir Aneerood Jugnauth (Sitting Prime Minister) made a written statement, read by his lawyer Sir Hamid Moollan and his solicitor Sachidanand Veerasamy that he made a mistake in saying that we were Amsterdam Boys and on the second day, i.e. the 3 August 1990, the Intermediate Court ruled as follows: Ramsahok did not take part in the 1987 General Elections.