Harrow council elections 2022:  some interesting candidates

David Ashton (Con):  Chairman of the Harrow East Conservative Association, and ex Belmont councillor who led the Conservative group on the council and the Harrow council very well. He did not stand for the council in 2010 (probably due to too much bickering from his deputy, Cllr Susan Hall, all the time). If elected for the Centenary ward, he would be an asset to the council’s financial decision-making team.
Peymana Assad (Lab): sitting Roxeth ward councillor with responsibility for community cohesion who plays hard on her Afghan ethnicity and claims victimhood (‘woman of colour and Muslim’) when her community cohesion inadequacies are challenged. Like, when  Cllr Marilyn Ashton pointed out at the cabinet meeting of 23 September 2021, that “a member of cabinet who’s in charge of community cohesion, who has tweeted that she will take up arms against the Afghan government and its allies (at the time in recent past), and labelled Israel is an apartheid state and spread doubts about the AstraZeneca as presented a vaccine”. Her many tweets also give sense of a needle for Pakistan.
Salim Chowdhury (Con): Hotelier and ex councillor for Pinner South who did not stand for re-election in 2010 because of his business commitments. He seems to be head-hunted, since Harrow conservatives have been criticised for having Islamophobic elements and no Muslim councillor. He, along with his Bangladeshi friends of the Conservative Party,  is loyal to the Harrow East MP Blackman, who has been in the news headlines for his Islamophobia related activities. He is now standing for the Centenary ward.
Thaya Idaikkadar (Con): Ex Roxeth ward Labour councillor and the leader of the Harrow council who left the Labour group on the council in 2013 amid racism claims . He formed and led the Independent Labour Group that ran the council with the support of the Tory group on the council, but then he was ousted by the same Tory group some months later in a power grabbing sharp move – the short-lived Tory administration lost the council in the 2014 elections. He is standing for the Rayners Lane ward.
Anjana Patel (Con): A West Harrow rejected and Harrow East adopted councillor is re-standing for the Belmont ward. Islamophobia: her tweet to Muslim activist and  Nobel Prize holder Malala Yousafzai, obtained by LBC radio station, was included in Islamophobia dossier. Many of her tweets (some now cleverly deleted) tag @PMOIndia @narendramodi (Indian PM Modi).

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