All Mauritius Hindu Congress

The All Mauritius Hindu Congress (AMHC) was a political party in Mauritius which existed from 1964 to 1967.[1][2]

All Mauritius Hindu Congress
Founded1964
IdeologySocialism
National affiliationAMHC

History

The All Mauritius Hindu Congress (AMHC) was founded by Hurreelall Padaruth, Anerood Jugnauth, Lall Jugnauth, Rabindrah Ghurburrun, Beergoonath Ghurburrun, Premchand Dabee, and Devendra Varma in 1964 prior to the August 1967 elections in preparation for Independence from the United Kingdom. Its electoral symbol was a wheel, inspired by the Ashoka Chakra.[3][4][5][6]

As a prominent member of IFB and of the new AMHC Anerood Jugnauth took part in the London Constitutional Conference on Mauritius, also commonly known as the 1965 Lancaster Conference. Earlier in 1963 Anerood Jugnauth had been elected for the first time to the Legislative Council as an IFB candidate.[7]

Newspaper

The All Mauritius Hindu Congress published a Hindi newspaper called Congress starting from 19 November 1964 to promote not only its political message but also published literary articles. Premchand Dabee was its editor for the English section whilst Pandit Soondar-Parsad Sharma was the editor for the Hindi section. Publication stopped after the 1967 elections.[8]

1967 Elections

Although it was pro-Independence[9] the AMHC suffered a significant defeat at the August 1967 elections as none of its candidates was elected. AMHC obtained only 0.8% of votes, whilst its rival Independence Party (Mauritius) won the majority (54%) of votes and the PMSD was second best with 43% of votes. Prior to the elections the AMHC was excluded from the coalition of Parti de l'Indépendance (IFB-CAM-Labour) due to its extreme radicalism.[10] Soon afterwards the party was dissolved.[11][12] A few months before the 1967 elections Anerood Jugnauth had already taken up a position in the civil service as a magistrate and thus he did not participate in these elections.[13]

References
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  11. "Mauritius". Retrieved 14 December 2014.
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  13. "Le parcours de SAJ en quelques dates". L'Express. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
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