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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Purryag" title="Kailash Purryag – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Kailash Purryag" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkeswur_Purryag" title="Rajkeswur Purryag – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Rajkeswur Purryag" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Purryag" title="Kailash Purryag – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kailash Purryag" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkeswur_Purryag" title="Rajkeswur Purryag – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Rajkeswur Purryag" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%BA" title="Κέιλας Πραγκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κέιλας Πραγκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Purryag" title="Kailash Purryag – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Kailash Purryag" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Purryag" title="Kailash Purryag – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kailash Purryag" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%AF" title="راجکشوور پوریاگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="راجکشوور پوریاگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Purryag" title="Kailash Purryag – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Kailash Purryag" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" 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li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Navin_Ramgoolam" title="Navin Ramgoolam">Navin Ramgoolam</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Anerood_Jugnauth" title="Anerood Jugnauth">Anerood Jugnauth</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Vice President</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Monique_Ohsan_Bellepeau" title="Monique Ohsan Bellepeau">Monique Ohsan Bellepeau</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Monique_Ohsan_Bellepeau" title="Monique Ohsan Bellepeau">Monique Ohsan Bellepeau</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(acting)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Monique_Ohsan_Bellepeau" title="Monique Ohsan Bellepeau">Monique Ohsan Bellepeau</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(acting)</span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Mauritius" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Speakers of the National Assembly of Mauritius">Speaker of the National Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />12 July 2005 – 23 July 2012</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Prem Ramnah</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Razack_Peeroo" title="Razack Peeroo">Razack Peeroo</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">7th <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Mauritius" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius">Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 December 1997 – 17 September 2000</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Navin_Ramgoolam" title="Navin Ramgoolam">Navin Ramgoolam</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Berenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Berenger">Paul Berenger</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Berenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Berenger">Paul Berenger</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Rajkeswur Purryag</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1947-12-12</span>) </span>12 December 1947<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 77)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Vacoas-Phoenix" title="Vacoas-Phoenix">Camp Fouquereaux</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Mauritius" title="British Mauritius">British Mauritius</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Mauritius)" title="Labour Party (Mauritius)">Labour Party</a><br />(1973–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Aneetah Purryag<br />(1973–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Politician<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(retired)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Law attorney</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rajkeswur Purryag</b>, <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_and_Key_of_the_Indian_Ocean" title="Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean">GCSK</a> (born 12 December 1947, also known as <b>Kailash Purryag</b>) is a former <a href="/wiki/Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian">Mauritian</a> politician who served as the fifth <a href="/wiki/President_of_Mauritius" title="President of Mauritius">president of Mauritius</a> from 2012 to May 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected president of Mauritius by the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Mauritius" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Mauritius">National Assembly</a> and took office on 21 July 2012. He succeeded <a href="/wiki/Sir_Anerood_Jugnauth" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Anerood Jugnauth">Sir Anerood Jugnauth</a>, who spent nine years as president from 2003 until resigning in March 2012. Kailash Purryag previously served as Member of Parliament, Minister and <a href="/wiki/Speaker_(politics)" title="Speaker (politics)">Speaker of the National Assembly</a>; he made his debut in the political arena at an early age in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-kotzot_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kotzot-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kailash_Purryag&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rajkeswur Purryag, better known as Kailash, was born on 12 December 1947 in Camp Fouquereaux, Mauritius. He is a <a href="/wiki/Bihari_Mauritian" class="mw-redirect" title="Bihari Mauritian">Bihari Mauritian</a> and his ancestors originated from the Indian state of <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>. His ancestry is traced from a <a href="/wiki/Lonia" title="Lonia">Nonia</a> caste family of Bihar.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended the Shree Shamboonath Government School and later the Mauritius College. He was sworn in as attorney-at-law in 1973. The same year he joined the <a href="/wiki/Mauritian_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauritian Labour Party">Mauritian Labour Party</a>. He became general secretary of the party in 1984 and president in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-defi2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defi2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-defi3_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defi3-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Career">Career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kailash_Purryag&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kailash Purryag became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Mauritius)" title="Labour Party (Mauritius)">Labour Party</a> in 1973. He was a member of the Municipal Commission of the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Council_of_Vacoas-Phoenix" title="Municipal Council of Vacoas-Phoenix">Municipal Council of Vacoas-Phoenix</a> from 1974 to 1976. Purryag was elected member of the Legislative Assembly for the first time at the <a href="/wiki/1976_Mauritian_general_election" title="1976 Mauritian general election">1976 elections</a> held on 20 December 1976 as one of the three members for Constituency No. 15 (La Caverne & Phoenix) of the Independence Party (coalition of Labour & CAM).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Purryag became Minister of Social Security from January 1980 to June 1982. In 1981, he was appointed as Leader of Delegation by the Government to negotiate adequate compensation for the <a href="/wiki/Chagossians" title="Chagossians">Ilois Community</a> in 1981 from the British Government. </p><p>At the 1982 elections Purryag was not elected when he stood as candidate of the Parti de l'Alliance Nationale (Labour-CAM-PMSD) at Constituency No.15 (La Caverne-Phoenix). He was defeated by the MMM-PSM candidates Peerthum, Juwaheer and Maudarbocus.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a candidate of <a href="/wiki/Parti_Mauricien_Social_D%C3%A9mocrate" title="Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate">PMSD</a> in Constituency No.17 (Curepipe-Midlands) at the <a href="/wiki/1983_Mauritian_general_election" title="1983 Mauritian general election">1983 elections</a> he was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly. As the PMSD joined forces with the victorious MSM-Labour coalition after the 1983 elections Purryag became Minister of Health from January 1984 to January 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Purryag was not a candidate at the 1987 elections and at the 1991 elections he was not elected when he stood as PMSD-Labour candidate in Constituency No.6.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as Secretary General of the Labour Party from 1987 to 1991 and became President of the Party from March 1991 to March 1996. </p><p>Purryag was elected Member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Mauritius)" title="National Assembly (Mauritius)">National Assembly</a> at the 1995 general elections as a candidate of the Labour-MMM coalition. He became Minister of Economic Planning, Information & Telecommunications from December 1995 to July 1997. He was appointed as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Mauritius" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius">Deputy Prime Minister</a> and Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Trade from July 1997 to September 2000. </p><p>At the 2000 general election Kailash Purryag (Labour-PMXD) was defeated at Constituency No. 11 Vieux Grand Port and Rose Belle by <a href="/wiki/Pravind_Jugnauth" title="Pravind Jugnauth">Pravind Jugnauth</a> and Rajesh Bhowon of the MSM-MMM coalition. </p><p>Although he did not take an active part in the 2005 and 2010 general elections Purryag was nominated in July 2005 and in May 2010 as <a href="/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Mauritius" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Speakers of the National Assembly of Mauritius">Speaker of the National Assembly</a>. He remained there until 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-career_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-career-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bio_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On Friday 20 July 2012, the Clerk of the National Assembly of Mauritius informed the House that, <i>immediately following his election as President of the Republic at to-day's sitting, the Honourable Rajkeswur Purryag, GCSK, GOSK, has submitted his resignation as Speaker of the National Assembly.</i><sup id="cite_ref-defi4_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defi4-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="President">President</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kailash_Purryag&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: President"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As stated on the Section 28 (2) (a) of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Mauritius" title="Constitution of Mauritius">Constitution of Mauritius</a>, the President shall be elected by the Assembly on a motion made by the Prime Minister and supported by the votes of a majority of all the Members of the Assembly. On 20 July 2012, the National Assembly elected Rajkeswur Purryag as President of Mauritius. The motion was presented by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Navin_Ramgoolam" title="Navin Ramgoolam">Navin Ramgoolam</a> and seconded by <a href="/wiki/Rashid_Beebeejaun" title="Rashid Beebeejaun">Rashid Beebeejaun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-defi4_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defi4-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kailash Purryag became the fifth President of Mauritius and took office on 21 July 2012. His first official visit was at the <a href="/wiki/Sir_Seewoosagur_Ramgoolam_Botanical_Garden" title="Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden">Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden</a>, where he meditated at the monument of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Seewoosagur_Ramgoolam" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam">Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam</a>, the father of the nation.<sup id="cite_ref-defi5_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defi5-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the victory of the MSM/PSMD/ML alliance led by <a href="/wiki/Sir_Anerood_Jugnauth" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Anerood Jugnauth">Sir Anerood Jugnauth</a> in December 2014, he was expected to resign to make way for the alliance's candidate, <a href="/wiki/Ameenah_Gurib-Fakim" title="Ameenah Gurib-Fakim">Ameenah Gurib-Fakim</a>, to assume the Presidency instead. In an official communique from the State House, he confirmed that he made an agreement with Jugnauth to remain as President up to May 2015 to ensure the hand over of power from the Ramgoolam administration to the new government in a climate of stability. He eventually resigned on 29 May 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before the <a href="/wiki/2024_Mauritian_general_election" title="2024 Mauritian general election">2024 Mauritian general election</a>, he was supposed to be President of Mauritius but sided with <a href="/wiki/Pravind_Jugnauth" title="Pravind Jugnauth">Pravind Jugnauth</a> and as he Pravind lost the elections, another president, <a href="/wiki/Dharam_Gokhool" title="Dharam Gokhool">Dharam Gokhool</a>, was elected. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-weight: normal; background-color: #DEDEDE;"><span style="font-size:80%">Presidential styles of</span><br /><b><span class="fn">Kailash Purryag<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">2012 to 2015</span></span></b></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Presidential seal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg/75px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg/113px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg/150px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_President_of_Mauritius.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="602" data-file-height="529" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Style_(manner_of_address)" class="mw-redirect" title="Style (manner of address)">Reference style</a></th><td class="infobox-data">His Excellency, Mr. Kailash Purryag, President of the Republic of Mauritius</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spoken style</th><td class="infobox-data">President Purryag</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alternative style</th><td class="infobox-data">Mr. President</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kailash_Purryag&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius,_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius%2C_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg/220px-Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius%2C_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius%2C_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg/330px-Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius%2C_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius%2C_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg/440px-Pranab_Mukherjee_presents_the_Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman_Award_to_the_President_of_the_Republic_of_Mauritius%2C_Mr._Rajkeswur_Purryag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1943" data-file-height="2082" /></a><figcaption>Purryag receives <a href="/wiki/Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman" title="Pravasi Bharatiya Samman">Pravasi Bharatiya Samman</a> from <a href="/wiki/President_of_India" title="President of India">President of India</a> in 2013</figcaption></figure> <p>He is recipient of both highest order merits in Mauritius. He was elevated as Grand Officer of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_and_Key_of_the_Indian_Ocean" title="Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean">Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean</a> (GOSK) on 12 March 1998 and Grand Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_and_Key_of_the_Indian_Ocean" title="Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean">Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean</a> (GCSK) on 12 March 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-hono_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hono-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received the Conferment of Honorary Freedom of the City of <a href="/wiki/Port_Louis" title="Port Louis">Port Louis</a> on 23 August 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-career_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-career-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 January 2013, Purryag received the <a href="/wiki/Pravasi_Bharatiya_Samman" title="Pravasi Bharatiya Samman">Pravasi Bharatiya Samman</a>, the highest honour conferred to overseas Indians at the 13th <a href="/wiki/Pravasi_Bharatiya_Divas" title="Pravasi Bharatiya Divas">Pravasi Bharatiya Divas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pbd_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pbd-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kailash_Purryag&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kailash Purryag was living at Camp Fouquereaux, <a href="/wiki/Curepipe" title="Curepipe">Curepipe</a> before he became president, he is the eldest of a family with nine children, he is married to Aneetah Purryag since 8 December 1973, he has a daughter and two grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-defi3_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-defi3-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During a state visit to India in January 2013, Purryag visited the village of his forefathers in Bajeetpore, <a href="/wiki/Patna" title="Patna">Patna</a>. 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Mauritius">Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius</a> </b><br />1997–2000 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Berenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Berenger">Paul Berenger</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Prem Ramnah</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Mauritius" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Speakers of the National Assembly of Mauritius">Speaker of the National Assembly</a> </b><br />2005–2012 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Razack_Peeroo" title="Razack Peeroo">Razack Peeroo</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><span 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