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Pravind Kumar Jugnauth MP Esq. (born:परावीन्द कुमार जुग्नौथ on 25 December 1961) is a Mauritian politician who is currently leader of the Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM) which is the largest party in the National Assembly since December 2014. He was previously serving as Minister of Technology, Communication and Innovation in Anerood Jugnauth's government following the victory of their alliance LEPEP in the 2014 general elections from December 2014 to July 2015. He has occupied various positions in both government and opposition since 2000. He was Minister of Agriculture from 2000 to 2003, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2005. While he served in Navin Ramgoolam's cabinet from 2010 to 2011 as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance〔http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/GovtHomePagesite/menuitem.c0a01177fcf48dfcf6be501054508a0c/?content_id=dc12d575d1a88010VgnVCM100000ca6a12acRCRD〕 He is also Member of Parliament for the 8th constituency Quartier Militaire and Moka.,〔http://www.gov.mu/portal/goc/assemblysite/file/hansardd0109v2.pdf〕 he left the coalition government and was appointed Leader of the Opposition in September 2014 until he was named as minister in his father's cabinet following their victory. He is the He is the leader of Militant Socialist Movement〔http://www.msmparty.org/about-us/leader.aspx〕 since 2003 and is the only son of Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Sarojini Ballah. His candidacy for Parliamentary General Elections in Constituency No 9, Rose Belle and Vieux Grand Port in 2000 made him elected as Member of Parliament from there. He was appointed as Minister of Agriculture by President Uteem to serve in the cabinet. He served as Minister under the premiership of his father Anerood Jugnauth who became Prime Minister in 2000 after winning the elections with then MSM/MMM coalition. He won the Leadership elections of the Militant Socialist Movement in May 2003. As a result of having a new leader, Anerood Jugnauth resigned in September 2003 as Prime Minister. Pravind Jugnauth supported candidate Paul Berenger to become Prime Minister. Whilst Berenger was head of the cabinet, Jugnauth became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. Jugnauth studied Law at University of Buckingham, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Lincoln's Inn and became a Barrister. He then joined Aix-Marseille University in France where he graduated with an LLM. He officially joined the MSM in 1990 and was honored Doctor from the University of Buckingham with a ''Honoris Causa'' in 2005. In 2010, he and the MSM joined hands with the Mauritian Labour Party and Mauritian Social Democrat Party and formed a coalition known as Ptr-MSM-PMSD which won the parliamentary elections. President Sir Anerood Jugnauth on the advice of Navin Ramgoolam then appointed him as Vice Prime Minister & Minister of Finance taking office as from 11 May 2010.〔http://www.defimedia.info/articles/8321/1/Cabinet--bapteme-de-feu-pour-7-ministres-6-font-leur-comeback-au-Conseil-des-ministres-12-ministres-sortants-reconduits-a-des-fonctions-ministerielles/Page1.html〕 Ion 26 July 2011, he resigned from his office of minister as well as all other MSM Ministers due to a scandale involving one of the MSM ministers.〔http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-26/mauritius-s-finance-minister-jugnauth-to-hold-briefing-after-resign-report.html〕〔http://www.mopays.com/msm-ministers-resign-from-their-ministerial-duties/〕 In 2014, following the resignation of Paul Berenger as Leader of the Opposition,President Purryag appointed Jugnauth to hold the constitutional office.〔http://www.lemauricien.com/article/assemblee-nationale-changing-guards〕〔http://news.islandcrisis.net/2014/09/pravin-jugnauth-appointed-leader-of-opposition/〕 He was convicted on charges on conflict of interest by an intermediate court in Mauritius on 30 June 2015. He was found guilty of acting as Minister of Finance and signing paperwork to purchase a private hospital (namely Medpoint) which is owned mainly by his sister Shalini Malhotra who is the major shareholder in the owner-company. He eventually submitted his resignation to President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as a government minister on July 1, 2015. ==Early life== Born on 25 December 1961 in La Caverne, a suburb area in Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius. Jugnauth was born in a modest Hindu family of labourers. He often said that he was born in "a wooden hut" of his maternal grandmother. He was born to Anerood Jugnauth a then barrister and to Sarojini Ballah a school teacher. He has an elder sister, Shalini Jugnauth, married to Dr Kishan Malhotra. In various interviews, Pravind stated that he has live a political life since birth. He stated that his father and uncles were all members of Independent Forward Bloc, a former political party led by Sookdeo Bissoondoyal (a former Minister in the Cabinet of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam) during the independence rally made by the country in 1967 so as to obtain autonomy from British Authorities. His father were one of the few people to attend the conference and meeting on negotiations on the independence of Mauritius. Pravind Jugnauth states that he remembers all part of it. After independence, his uncle was appointed Attorney General in cabinet and his father was appointed as Junior Minister. He said he still remembers all negotiations on different aspects on the new constitution. He went on to study at the local Primary School where he obtained his mother as teacher. He always mentioned his mother as his confidant and his father as his inspiration. After primary schooling, he went to Royal College Curepipe where he passed his O Levels and A levels. He then went on to study law in UK. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pravind Jugnauth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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