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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name= M. T. Khan<br />
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| title1 = Minister for Commerce, Industries and Co-operatives<br />
| term1 = 1972–1976<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Edward Cakobau]]<br />
| successor1 =<br />
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| title2= Member of the [[House of Representatives of Fiji|House of Representatives]]<br />
| term2 = 1972–1977<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Vijay R. Singh]]<br />
| successor2 = [[C. A. Shah]]<br />
| constituency2 = Indo-Fijian National North-Eastern<br />
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| office3 = Member of the [[Senate of Fiji|Senate]]<br />
| term3 = 1970–1972<br />
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| office4 = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Fiji|Legislative Council]]<br />
| term4 = 1966–1968<br />
| successor4 = [[Ujagar Singh]]<br />
| constituency4 = South-Central Viti Levu<br />
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| party = [[Federation Party]] (until 1968)<br>[[Alliance Party (Fiji)|Alliance Party]] (after 1968)<br />
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| birth_date= <br />
| birth_place= <br />
| death_date= May 1982<br />
| death_place= [[Lautoka]], Fiji<br />
| profession= Lawyer<br />
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'''Mohammed Taiyab Khan''' (died May 1982) was an [[Indo-Fijians|Indo-Fijian]] politician and lawyer. Between 1966 and 1977 he served as a member of the [[Legislative Council of Fiji|Legislative Council]], [[Senate of Fiji|Senate]] and [[House of Representatives of Fiji|House of Representatives]]. He was also Minister for Commerce, Industries and Co-operatives from 1972 to 1976.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
A prominent lawyer in the [[Tavua, Fiji|Tavua]] area, Khan was the [[Federation Party]] candidate for the South-Central Viti Levu Indo-Fijian [[communal constituencies|communal constituency]] in the [[1966 Fijian general election|1966 elections]] and was elected to the [[Legislative Council of Fiji|Legislative Council]]. In 1968 all Federation Party members resigned in protest at the government. However, Khan switched allegiances to the [[Alliance Party (Fiji)|Alliance Party]] and ran unsuccessfully in the North-East Viti Levu constituency in the subsequent [[1968 Fijian by-elections|by-elections]].<ref name=A>J.M. Anthony (1969) "The 1968 Fiji by - Elections", ''The Journal of Pacific History'', Volume 4, pp132–135</ref><br />
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When Fiji became independent in 1970, an appointed [[Senate of Fiji|Senate]] was established, with Khan appointed as one of the nominees of Prime Minister [[Kamisese Mara]]. He remained in the Senate until the [[1972 Fijian general election|1972 elections]], when he was elected to the House of Representatives from the Indo-Fijian North-Eastern national constituency. Following the elections, he was appointed Minister for Commerce, Industries and Co-operatives by Mara. However, in May 1976 he was charged with corruption and resigned from the cabinet. Although he was later cleared, he was not invited to return to the cabinet, and was later expelled from the Alliance after abstaining from a key vote.<ref>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-334874869/view?sectionId=nla.obj-349503601&partId=nla.obj-334914360#page/n11/mode/1up ...and Fiji plans to weed out the grafters] ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', March 1977, p12</ref><br />
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He lost his seat in the [[March 1977 Fijian general election|March 1977 elections]] and later joined the [[National Federation Party]] (NFP), a successor to the Federation Party. He died in Lautoka in May 1982 from a heart attack, shortly before the [[1982 Fijian general election|general elections]] in which he was an NFP candidate.<ref name=PIM>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340144383/view?partId=nla.obj-340175148#page/n72/mode/1up Mohammed Taiyab Khan] July 1982, pp73–74</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Fijian Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:Fijian lawyers]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Tavua, Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Legislative Council of Fiji]]<br />
[[Category:Alliance Party (Fiji) politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the Senate (Fiji)]]<br />
[[Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Fiji)]]<br />
[[Category:National Federation Party politicians]]<br />
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