Sanjeev Teeluckdharry

Sanjeev is practising as barrister since 11th January 2001. He appears regularly before all the Courts and Tribunals in Mauritius and less regularly before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. He equally enjoys to appear before the Assizes Court. In 2012, he was referred to as “the tenacious outspoken barrister” by the BBC News during the Michaela Harte murder trial.

He was a member of Parliament between 2014 to 2019. He has also been Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. He left politics to concentrate on his on-going legal practice. He is considered as a man of the people who fights for the people and as such he has been handling numerous cases on a pro bono basis, to protect the destitute class of society and also in cases where issues of public importance are involved.

As a human rights lawyer, time and again, whenever fundamental rights of citizens are being violated or whenever democracy, sovereignty and rule of law are under attack, he resorts to constitutional challenges before the Supreme Court to shield aggrieved citizens.

Some examples are: the challenge of the biometric identity card scheme (before the Supreme Court, the Privy Council and ultimately before the United Human Rights Committee). Other such challenges include the compulsory covid vaccination, medical cannabis, the re-registration of SIM cards, the increase of Basic Retirement Pension age and recently the signature of mutual agreement between the COP and the US Military Force.

On other occasions, whenever authorities resorted to cover up of cases of homicide, abuse of power, corruption or inertia, he lodged private prosecutions on behalf of his clients to denounce such state of affairs. For instance, private prosecutions in relation to Wakashio oil spill, Kistnen affair, cyclone Belall, Stag Party gate.

After the Finance Act 2025 when the Govt took drastic measures to dismantle the Welfare State, he decided to leave his comfort zone and to return to the political battlefield.

Congres Citoyen Mauricien has been set up with a view to empower the youth and to create a new credible alternative choice for the people who is now fed up with decades of political cartels such as Labour, MSM, MMM, PMSD, political dinosaurs and political dynasties.

Politics should never become a commercial enterprise nor a family business, nor should it become a lucrative opportunity to fill one’s coffers, suitcases or bank balances or to build empires at the expense of the people. The nation’s welfare should never be sacrificed at the altar of selfish personal pecuniary interests.

Politics should be perceived as a discipline where the citizen - as son or daughter of the soil, is guided by philanthropic ideal and by patriotic duty of the citizen towards his or her motherland with the ultimate pursuit – the welfare of the people.