[2] In 1946, Sookdeo Bissoondoyal left the teaching profession to join his elder brother Basdeo's movement Jan Andolan.
He was re-elected for the fourth consecutive time in the same Rose-Belle Constituency No.21 in the 1963 elections,[9] whilst the IFB increased its representation to seven seats.
The IP alliance won the August 1967 elections, with Bissoondoyal re-elected in the Vieux Grand Port & Rose-Belle Constituency No.11,[10] and subsequently becoming Minister of Cooperatives.
[12] Sookdeo Bissoondoyal wrote the book "A Concise History of Mauritius" which was published for the first time in 1965 by Bharativa Vidya Bhavan.
On 3 April 1987 the Sookdeo Bissoondoyal Memorial Museum (located on the main road in the village of Tyack, Rivière des Anguilles) was inaugurated.