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LONDON: The Labour party has deselected 18 of its Leicester councillors, including all of its Hindu councillors, preventing them from standing for the Labour party in the May local elections.
Seven Indian-origin Labour councillors, six of whom are Hindu and one Christian, were deselected after the Labour national executive committee (NEC) parachuted into Leicester to choose who would stand, alongside the regional party and city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby, usurping the usual practice of local Labour branches selecting who should stand in their wards following a hustings.
The move has left many Labour candidates and branches outraged. The deselection of all the Hindu councillors has raised eyebrows in the light of the Hindu-Muslim unrest in August and September last...