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| | Jai Ram Reddy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | From 1966 to 1970, he served as Crown Counsel and Principal LegalOfficer in the Attorney-General's Office, and was the senior partner in a law firm from 1970 to 1977, when he entered politics and was elected to the House of Representatives for the firsttime. |
 | | Reddy replaced Sidiq Koya as leader of the NFP in September 1977, following major internal strife which had resulted in the party's missing out on forming thegovernment despite its narrow victory in the election of March 1977, and its subsequent crushing defeat in a second election held to resolve thepolitical stalemate in September. |
 | | In the late 1990s, Reddy decided to negotiate with the Prime Minister, General Sitiveni Rabuka, on amending the 1990 constitution, which was widely perceived asracist and was compared by many to South Africa's apartheid regime, as it guaranteed the political supremacy of ethnic Fijians. |
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