Monday 6 July 2020

Kilburn Times breaks story over Brent Council leader's attendance at prayer service during lockdown

Great work by reporter Nathalie Raffray has just been published on the Kilburn Times website LINK.

In summary the report says that Brent Council leader, Cllr Muhammed Butt amd Councillor Sangani attended a prayer service at the Ealing Road Mandir despite a government ban on collective acts of worship in faith buildings as part of the Covid19 restrictions.

To make matters worse they were joined by former Alperton Labour Party council candidate Chetan Harpale who was suspended from the Labour Party and  subsequently defeated at the Alperton by-election by Liberal Democrat Anton Georgiou.

Harpale was suspended after his social media posts applauding Tory MP Bob Blackman and Indian PM Modi, calling Jeremy Corbyn a 'pro- Jihadist and labelling Pakistan a 'Terror State'.

Do read the full story for all the circumlocutions.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mo loves a photo opportunity, but may regret taking part in this one!!!

Unknown said...

People can die because of selfish behaviour like this. Butt needs to be fired

Anonymous said...

Interesting to see that today's weekly Brent Council online newsletter, with its usual photo of a smiling Council Leader prominently placed, includes an item on Staying safe while using places of worship!!!