Sase Narain
{{Short description|Guyanese politician and lawyer (1925–2020)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name =Sase Narain
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|size=100%|list=OR SC}} {{post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|CMG}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1925|1|27}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2020|8|25|1925|1|27}}
| death_place = Queenstown, Georgetown, Guyana
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| office = Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana
| term_start = 4 January 1971
| term_end = 10 June 1992
| predecessor = Rahman Baccus Gajraj
| successor = Derek Chunilall Jagan
| party = People's National Congress
| religion =
| spouse = Shamshun (m. 1952)
| children = 5
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| occupation = lawyer, politician
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Sase Narain {{post-nominals|size=100%|list=OR SC}} {{post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|CMG}} (27 January 1925 – 25 August 2020){{cite web |title=Former Speaker Sase Narain passes away at 95 |url=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/08/25/news/guyana/former-speaker-sase-narain-passes-away-at-95/ |website=Stabroek News |date=25 August 2020}} was a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana from 1971 to 1992,{{Cite web|url=http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/11/09/reflections-of-a-venerable-public-servant/|title=Reflections of a venerable public servant|date=2014-11-09|website=Kaieteur News|access-date=2016-09-11}}{{cite web |last1=Narain |first1=Frank A. |title=Historical Information on the Parliament of Guyana from 1718 to 2006 |url=http://parliament.gov.gy/GUYANA%20PARLIAMENT%20HISTORY%202009-1.pdf |website=Parliament of Guyana |date=15 January 2007}} becoming the longest serving Speaker in Guyana.
Early life
Sase Narain grew up in Pouderoyen, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, British Guiana, and attended the Modern Educational Institute in Georgetown. After finishing high school, he went to the United Kingdom to study law. In 1957, he graduated from the City Law School in London.{{cite news|url=https://guyanatimesgy.com/longest-serving-pnc-house-speaker-sase-narain-95-passes-on/|title=Longest-serving PNC House Speaker Sase Narain, 95, passes on|website=Guyana Times|access-date=26 August 2020}}
When he returned to Guyana, Narain became the President of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha.{{Cite thesis|title=Political Parties in a Bifurcated State: The Case of Guyana|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2142/76790|publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|date=1970|language=en|last=Premdas, Ralph Rikhinand|first=|degree=PhD|doi=}}
Speaker of the National Assembly
In 1991, Narain became the first Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly to expel a Member of Parliament after Minister of Agriculture Isahak Basir threw a drinking glass at Narain.{{Cite web|author=Staff Reporter|date=2017-06-26|title=Essequibo man|url=http://guyanachronicle.com/2017/06/26/essequibo-man|access-date=2020-07-05|website=Guyana Chronicle|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2019-02-03|title=Former MP, Isahak Basir, dead at 87|url=https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2019/02/03/former-mp-isahak-basir-dead-at-87/|access-date=2020-07-05|website=Kaieteur News|language=en-US}}
Later career
Death
Narain died on 25 August 2020 in Queenstown, Georgetown at the age of 95. Former Prime Minister Hamilton Green praised him for "his candor and his wisdom".
Honours
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Category:Alumni of City, University of London
Category:20th-century Guyanese lawyers
Category:People from Essequibo Islands-West Demerara
Category:Speakers of the National Assembly (Guyana)
Category:Guyanese Senior Counsel
Category:Guyanese appointees to the Order of St Michael and St George