Several dignitaries including Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and J P Fernandes, General Secretary of the Indian Young Men's Christian Association in London attended the function.
Chaudhry is the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. The former trade union leader became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister on May 19, 1999, but exactly one year later he was ousted in a coup.
Chaudhry's ancesters hailed from Rohtak District in Haryana. His paternal grandfather arrived in Fiji in 1902, as an indentured labourer, to work on Fiji's sugarcane plantations.
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