Khemradj Kanhai
Khemradj Kanhai (Paramaribo, 4 June 1912 – Amsterdam, 26 November 1988) was a Surinamese politician of the VHP.
He studied bookkeeping but failed for an exam. Then he started working as a shop assistant at Sauwma and later he became active in wholesale and retail. Kanhai was also a board member of the Chamber of Commerce.[1] Besides that he was a board member of the 'Hindoe Partij' that merged in 1949 into the VHP of which he became the treasurer. At the 1951 Surinamese general election the two seats of the Estates of Suriname for the district Nickerie went to the VHP members Oedayrajsing Varma and Kanhai. Both were reelected in 1955 but at the election in 1958 the VHP candidates Rambaran Mishre and Kanhai in that district lost from the NOP candidates Poetoe and Kolhoe.[2] In 1974, a year before Suriname became independent, he moved to Amsterdam where he died in 1988 at the age of 76.[3]
References
- ^ Het Nieuws, 21-03-1951
- ^ Het Nieuws, 26-06-1958
- ^ Khemradj Kanhai, archief.amsterdam