Arvin Boolell

Following the breakup of the coalition government of the MSM and the Labour Party in 2011, Boolell was the first presumptive person to replace Pravind Jugnauth as Vice Prime Minister. However, a last minute change in the protocol brought to Anil Bachoo's appointment as VPM. He remained number 6 until election 2014.

Boolell has been very famous as Minister of Agriculture (later known as Minister of Agro-Industry). His first tenure was from 1995 to 2000 and second tenure was from 2005 to 2008. Following the cabinet reshuffling of 2008, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs and remained as such till 2014.

In 1991, following the landslide victory of the MSM/MMM coalition led by Anerood Jugnauth, he was still elected as first member of parliament serving for Constituency No 11. He became Opposition Whip until Paul Berenger and the MMM was dismissed from the government.

He was elected in constituency no. 11 Rose Belle & Vieux Grand Port since 1987 up to 2014 where he was defeated in the general elections. He was the candidate of the Labour Party in 2017 during the by-elections in constituency no 18, Belle Rose and Quatre-Bornes. He was elected and became member of the national assembly anew. He was candidate of the Labour Party in the 2019 General Elections and was elected in Constituency no. 18 again. Since the labour leader Navin Ramgoolam was not elected as member of parliament, the party chose him to be its parliamentary leader and being the official opposition party, Boolell became the leader of the Opposition.

He was firstly elected in 1987 in Constituency No 11, Vieux Grand Port and Rose Belle. He has been elected since then until now. He became a cabinet minister in the coalition government of the MSM and the Mauritian Labour Party headed by Anerood Jugnauth.

Arvin Boolell GOSK, MP (born आर्विन बूलेल्ल on May 26, 1953) is a Mauritian politician who is serving as the Leader of the Opposition.