Brassa Plein, the park opposite the market buidings in Nieuw Nickerie. In the centre is a bust of Mr. Jaggernath Lachmon (1916 – 2001), one of the founders of the Progressive Reform Party, an Indo-Surinamese party founded in 1947 of which he served a long period as President. He was born in Corantijnpolder in the district of Nickerie. The youngest child of six, his parents were contract laborers from Uttar Pradesh to Suriname.