Mohammed Tahir

Who is Mohammed Tahir?

Mohammed Tahir is a Fijian politician of Indian descent. He represents the Labasa Rural Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, which he retained for the Fiji Labour Party in a byelection held on 6 December 2003 to succeed the late Mohammed Latif Subedar.

Tahir polled 69 percent of the vote in what has long been an FLP stronghold, having been held continuously by the party since the early 1990s. Although impressive, Tahir's share of the vote was 14 percentage points down on what Subedar had received in the general election of 2001. The run-up to the byelection was marred by threats of legal action from Charan Jeath Singh, Tahir's National Federation Party opponent, who objected to an FLP campaign brochure which made what Singh said were defamatory allegations that he had helped to finance the Fiji coup of 2000, and that he was involved in vote-buying.

He won the seat with an increased majority in the 2006 election.