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Krishna Menon Award
May 11 , 2018
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- Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's Indian-origin former prime minister, has been chosen to receive the V K Krishna Menon Award in recognition of his contribution to the Indian diaspora.
- The award was announced by the director of V K Krishna Menon Institute Cyriac Maprayil as the institute celebrated the 122nd birth anniversary of him at the Nehru Centre in London
- Chaudhry is the leader of the Fiji Labour Party. The former trade union leader became Fiji’s first Indo-Fijian PM on May 19, 1999, but exactly one year later he was ousted in a coup.
- The VK Krishna Menon Institute was established in 2006 to commemorate and facilitate the life, times and achievements of VK Menon.
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