Ramsaran Lionel "Sarran" Teelucksingh OBE JP (2 August 1889 – 08 March 1952[1]) was a Trinidad and Tobago businessman and politician.
[2]: 41 Teelucksingh served as president of the EINC[3]: 151 and, according to historian Kelvin Singh, "converted [it] into an electoral machine".
In 1938 Teelucksingh defeated Clarence Abidh, a fellow Christian Indo-Trinidadian, to win a fourth term on the Legislative Council.
[6] Teelucksingh competed against Clarence Abidh of the Trades Union Congress and Socialist Party and Simbhoonath Capildeo who ran under the banner of the United Front.
[2] Teelucksingh's campaign for the Legislative Council in 1925 included promises of repatriation to India for former indentured labourers who desired it.
[3]: 106–134 Despite this, the East Indian Weekly was supportive of the three Indo-Trinidadian representatives — Teelucksingh, Timothy Roodal and F. E. M. Hosein — when they raised the concerns of the community.
[2]: 84 After conflict with Cipriani over the divorce legislation in 1931, Teelucksingh broke his ties with the TWA and ran in subsequent elections as an "Independent Socialist".
The bill pitted the Catholic French Creole elite against the Protestant British administrative class.