Dewan Chand

Chand had been a secondary school principal, and an active member of the Fiji Teachers Union before joining politics.^[1] He was elected to Parliament as a Fiji Labour Party candidate in the 2006 Fijian general election, winning 90% of the votes cast in the Laucala Indian Communal Constituency.^[2] He lost his seat when parliament was dissolved following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état.

In October 2009, he was re-elected the northern vice president of Fiji Football Association.^[3]

In September 2012 he was convicted on indecent assault and defiling a girl under the age of 13 and sentenced to four years imprisonment.^[4] The conviction was upheld on appeal.^[5] He was subsequently sacked from the Fiji Football Association.^[6]