Jain Kumar was elected the Chairman of Sugar Cane Growers Council

Sugar Cane Growers Council (Fiji)

Sugar Cane Growers Council represents the sugar cane farmers with the sugar industry in Fiji. It is made up of 38 members elected by the farmers and eight members nominated by the Government. The Sugar Cane Growers Council election is held every three years. The Council has a Chief Executive, the...

 of Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

 on 19 January 2007. He replaced Vijendra Autar who had been sacked by the military together with Jagannath Sami

Jagannath Sami

Jagannath Sami has been a soccer player representing a premier district side in the Fiji Football Association competitions, a leader of the sugar mill workers, a leader of a farmers' union, a politician and Chief Executive Officer of the Sugar Cane Growers Council of Fiji but he is best known for...

 and eight board members appointed by the deposed government. Kumar was previously the Vice Chairman of the Council and is the President of the National Farmers Union

National Farmers Union (Fiji)

The National Farmers Union is one of Fiji's largest trade unions. It was launched in Labasa in July 1978 under the auspices of the Fiji Trades Union Congress, with Mahendra Chaudhry as its first General Secretary...

. He was elected to the House of Representatives

House of Representatives (Fiji)

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 in the 2006 elections from the Ba East Indian Communal Constituency

Ba East (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji)

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 on the Fiji Labour Party

Fiji Labour Party

The Fiji Labour Party is a political party in Fiji, which holds observer status with the Socialist International. Most of its support at present comes from the Indo-Fijian community, although it is officially multiracial and its first leader was an indigenous Fijian, Dr. Timoci Bavadra. It is...

ticket.