predecessor religion imagesize title party term_start article_title term_end name
vinod chandra deo maharaj hindu 300 member indian communal constituency of house of representatives -lrb- fiji -rrb- vuda fiji labour party 2001 vyas deo sharma
 2006 vyas deo sharma
vyas deo sharma

vyas deo sharma is a former fijian politician of indian descent .
in the house of representatives he represented the vuda indian communal constituency , one of 19 reserved for indo-fijians , from 2001 to 2006 .
he won the seat for the fiji labour party -lrb- flp -rrb- in the parliamentary elections of 2001 with almost 80 percent of the vote , taking the seat from the incumbent vinod chandra deo maharaj who had been elected on the flp ticket in 1999 but had subsequently defected to the new labour unity party .
in 2003 , sharma was offered the portfolio of minister for veterans affairs , together with 13 other flp parliamentarians who were offered cabinet positions by the prime minister , laisenia qarase but the flp refused to accept this offer .
a staunch supporter of flp leader mahendra chaudhry , he publicly clashed with fellow-parliamentarian felix anthony and others who questioned chaudhry 's style of leadership .
on 30 june 2006 , fiji village revealed that he had filed a police complaint against anthony for alleged verbal abuse at the warwick hotel in sigatoka the day before .
