Nassimah Dindar Mangrolia was born to a large family, the sixth of twelve.
17 Facts About Nassimah Dindar
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Nassimah Dindar volunteered with the group Femmes actuelles de La Reunion, which she became president of in 1996.
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Nassimah Dindar was first elected to the Regional Council of La Reunion in 1998, on the party list of Margie Sudre.
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Nassimah Dindar became an assistant secretary within Rally for the Republic and, from 2002, third deputy mayor for Saint-Denis and the vice-president of the departmental council of Reunion, as the elected representative of Saint-Denis canton.
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Nassimah Dindar was appointed as the Delegate General for diversity within the national office of the Union for a Popular Movement, where she engaged in outreach on behalf of the party in the Overseas department and regions.
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Nassimah Dindar was awarded the Ordre national du Merite in 2006.
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Nassimah Dindar stood as a candidate in the 2007 French legislative elections for Reunion's 1st constituency as a member of the "Presidential Majority" coalition.
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Nassimah Dindar was able to use the support of the UMP, MoDem, Communist Party of Reunion and the Socialist Party to be re-elected as head of the Departmental Council.
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Re-elected in 2011 with two-thirds of the votes in her district, Nassimah Dindar announced plans to run in the 2012 French legislative election for Reunion's 1st constituency in the National Assembly.
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Nassimah Dindar rejoined the Democratic Movement and supported their leader Francois Bayrou in the presidential election.
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Nassimah Dindar was elected as a Senator representing Reunion in the 2017 French Senate election.
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In June 2016, Nassimah Dindar was sentenced to three years probation, a six months suspended sentence in prison and a fine of 30,000 Euro for a hiring discrimination case.
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On 6 December 2018, Nassimah Dindar was called to the local magistrate for a hearing on the management of the Paris office of the Regional Council of Reunion, which was criticized by the Regional Chamber of Accounts, an auditor of Regional finances.
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In 2017, the CRC criticized the functioning of Glaive, an organization headed by Nassimah Dindar and subsidized by the regional government.
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The prosecutors investigation charged Nassimah Dindar for having hired employees out of compliance with labour law.
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Nassimah Dindar hired two members of the local fire and rescue service to work "in a private manner" as an assistant and a gardiner.
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On 27 December 2018, Nassimah Dindar served as a witness for a hearing at Caserne Verines on this issue.