successor religion title party textname term_start article_title term_end
krishna prasad hindu member open constituency of house of representatives -lrb- fiji -rrb- nadi fiji labour party pradhuman raniga 1999 pradhuman raniga
 2000
pradhuman raniga

pradhuman raniga is a fiji indian politician who won the nadi open constituency , one of the 25 open seats , for the fiji labour party during the 1999 elections for the house of representatives .
on 19 may 2000 , he was among the 43 members of the people 's coalition government , led by mahendra chaudhry , taken hostage by george speight and his band of rebel republic of fiji military forces -lrb- rfmf -rrb- soldiers from the counter revolutionary warfare unit .
he was released on 12 july 2000 .
