 Fiji Television further claimed that Singh had been taken from his Samabula home, locked in a cell, and assaulted.A member of the executive of the National Federation Party (once a major political party, but without parliamentary representation from 1999 to 2014), Singh has contested several elections on his party's ticket.In the 1999 election (in which his party lost all of its seats in the House of Representatives), Singh was a candidate in the Laucala Indian Communal Constituency.