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	'''Irene Jai Narayan,''' (23 February 1932<ref>{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ \| title=Who's Who in Asian and Australasian Politics \| year=1991 \| publisher=Bowker-Saur \| isbn=9780862915933 \| accessdate=14 September 2018 }}</ref> – 29 July 2011) was an ~~[[India]]n~~ born teacher and politician, who had a significant influence on politics in [[Fiji]].<ref name="Lal2006">{{cite book\|last=Lal\|first=Brij V.\|title=Islands of turmoil: elections and politics in Fiji\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImZSSkztAtYC&pg=PA52\|accessdate=4 April 2011\|date=January 2006\|publisher=Asia Pacific Press\|isbn=978-0-7315-3751-8\|page=52}}</ref> She came to Fiji in 1959 after marrying Jai Narayan, a well known school Principal in [[Suva]], and began her career as a teacher. She taught in DAV Girls School and MGM High School in Suva before entering politics.<ref name="flp.org.fj">[http://www.flp.org.fj/n110731.htm Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry remembers Irene Jai Narayan] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808105406/http://www.flp.org.fj/n110731.htm \|date=2011-08-08 }}, flp.org.fj; accessed 22 August 2016.</ref>		'''Irene Jai Narayan,''' (23 February 1932<ref>{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ \| title=Who's Who in Asian and Australasian Politics \| year=1991 \| publisher=Bowker-Saur \| isbn=9780862915933 \| accessdate=14 September 2018 }}</ref> – 29 July 2011) was an Indian born teacher and politician, who had a significant influence on politics in [[Fiji]].<ref name="Lal2006">{{cite book\|last=Lal\|first=Brij V.\|title=Islands of turmoil: elections and politics in Fiji\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImZSSkztAtYC&pg=PA52\|accessdate=4 April 2011\|date=January 2006\|publisher=Asia Pacific Press\|isbn=978-0-7315-3751-8\|page=52}}</ref> She came to Fiji in 1959 after marrying Jai Narayan, a well known school Principal in [[Suva]], and began her career as a teacher. She taught in DAV Girls School and MGM High School in Suva before entering politics.<ref name="flp.org.fj">[http://www.flp.org.fj/n110731.htm Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry remembers Irene Jai Narayan] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808105406/http://www.flp.org.fj/n110731.htm \|date=2011-08-08 }}, flp.org.fj; accessed 22 August 2016.</ref>

	==Member of Legislative Council==		==Member of Legislative Council==

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{{short description|Fijian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}
{{more citations needed|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image= 
| name = Irene Jai Narayan
| title= Member of Legislative Council (Fiji) <br />Suva Indian Communal Constituency
| term_start= 1966
| term_end= 1972
| predecessor=
| successor=
| title2= Member of House of Representatives (Fiji) <br /> Suva City Indian Communal Constituency
| term_start2= 1972
| term_end2= 1987
| predecessor2=
| successor2=
| title3=Minister of Indian Affairs
| term_start3=1987
| term_end3=1992
| predecessor3=
| successor3=
| title4=Senator
| term_start4=1994
| term_end4=1999
| predecessor4=
| successor4=
| birth_date= {{Birth date|1932|2|23|df=y}}
| birth_place= Lukhnow, India
| death_date= {{death date and age|2011|7|29|1932|2|23|df=y}}
| death_place= Suva, Fiji
| party= National Federation Party, Alliance Party, National Alliance Party
| residence= Suva, Fiji
| spouse= Jai Narayan
| profession= Teacher
}}

'''Irene Jai Narayan,''' (23 February 1932<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ | title=Who's Who in Asian and Australasian Politics | year=1991 | publisher=Bowker-Saur | isbn=9780862915933 | accessdate=14 September 2018 }}</ref> – 29 July 2011) was an [[India]]n born teacher and politician, who had a significant influence on politics in [[Fiji]].<ref name="Lal2006">{{cite book|last=Lal|first=Brij V.|title=Islands of turmoil: elections and politics in Fiji|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImZSSkztAtYC&pg=PA52|accessdate=4 April 2011|date=January 2006|publisher=Asia Pacific Press|isbn=978-0-7315-3751-8|page=52}}</ref> She came to Fiji in 1959 after marrying Jai Narayan, a well known school Principal in [[Suva]], and began her career as a teacher. She taught in DAV Girls School and MGM High School in Suva before entering politics.<ref name="flp.org.fj">[http://www.flp.org.fj/n110731.htm Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry remembers Irene Jai Narayan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808105406/http://www.flp.org.fj/n110731.htm |date=2011-08-08 }}, flp.org.fj; accessed 22 August 2016.</ref>

==Member of Legislative Council==
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In 1966, she was handpicked by the then leader of the [[Federation Party]], [[A. D. Patel]] to contest the Suva Indian Communal seat in the [[Legislative Council of Fiji|Legislative Council]] against [[Andrew Deoki]]. Deoki was an experienced political campaigner, having represented Suva in the Legislative Council since 1959 and had wide social contacts. He was the only non-Federation Indian member elected in the [[1963 Fijian general election|1963 elections]]. A.D. Patel was of the opinion that a female candidate would be able to counteract some of Deoki's influence in the constituency. In the end Irene Narayan won easily by 5,676 votes to 2,779 votes. She increased her majority in the [[1968 Fijian by-elections|1968 by-election]]. For a long time, she remained the sole Indian female member of the Legislative Council.

==Member of House of Representatives==
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Irene Narayan was elected to independent Fiji's [[House of Representatives of Fiji|House of Representatives]] in the [[1972 Fijian general election|1972]], [[March 1977 Fijian general election|1977 (March)]], [[September 1977 Fijian general election|1977 (September)]] and [[1982 Fijian general election|1982 elections]], from the Suva Indian Communal Constituency. In 1977 when the National Federation Party split into two factions, she joined the "Flower" faction, with [[Jai Ram Reddy]], opposed to [[Sidiq Koya]]'s "Dove" faction. In the September, 1977 election, the "Flower" faction won most of the seats reserved for Indians, Jai Ram Reddy became the [[Leader of the Opposition (Fiji)|Leader of the Opposition]] and '''Irene Narayan''' played an influential role within the "Flower" faction. In January 1977, ''The Fiji Times'' honoured her as its Woman of the Year.<ref name="flp.org.fj"/>

==Resignation from NFP==
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She served as president of the party from 1976 to 1979. She was also the Opposition [[whip (politics)|Whip]] from 1977 to 1979, and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1979 to 1985. In 1985, following the resignation of Jai Ram Reddy, she narrowly lost a bid to lead the opposition, to Sidiq Koya. Relations between her and the new leader remained strained and she resigned from the National Federation Party (NFP) after electoral setback in a by-election, accusing Koya of favouring his own supporters over party unity and stating that "the NFP has no future and is no longer virile as an opposition party."

==Member of Alliance Party==
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Between 1985 and 1987, the NFP again went through internal turmoil and many of its Parliamentarians resigned from the Party, but while most joined the fledgling [[Fiji Labour Party]], Irene Narayan surprised everyone by joining the [[Alliance Party (Fiji)|Alliance Party]], which she had bitterly opposed throughout her political career. The Alliance Party was aware that she would not be able to hold the Suva City Indian Communal seat on its ticket and so rewarded her with the marginal seat of Suva Indian National Constituency. The Alliance had never lost this seat but in the [[1987 Fijian general election|general election]] of 1987, the loss of this seat led to the narrow defeat of the Alliance Party.

==Post coup politics==
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Following [[1987 Fijian coups d'état|two military coups]] in 1987, she was one of the few Indo-Fijians who agreed to serve (as Minister of Indian Affairs) in the transitional government of 1987–92, a government that was widely condemned by many of her fellow Indo-Fijians for promulgating a constitution which many saw as racist as it ensured [[Fijians|ethnic Fijian]] political supremacy. She served as a [[Senate of Fiji|Senator]] from 1994 to 99, and in 1985 co-founded the [[Fiji Indian Congress]]. Although a Hindu, she played a leading role in the founding of the [[Christian Democratic Alliance (Fiji)|Christian Democratic Alliance]] in 1999.

Early in 2005, Narayen joined the [[National Alliance Party of Fiji|National Alliance Party]], a new [[List of political parties in Fiji|party]] founded by [[Epeli Ganilau|''Ratu'' Epeli Ganilau]] as an attempt to revive the defunct Alliance Party. She participated in the official launch of the party on 8 April 2005.

==See also==
* [[National Federation Party]]

==References==
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