Labour has dropped one of its Council candidates only a few weeks before nominations close for the polls on May 7th.
Aggarwal candidate announcement on Labour Web site
No reason has been given by Labour for dropping Rakesh Aggarwal as a candidate for the Guildhall Ward. A massage therapist who had worked in York for 17 years, it was possible that he could have become Labour’s first Councillor from an ethnic minority background.
He has been replaced by a former York University student James Flinders who does not live in the Guildhall ward. He is believed to have been an associate of the disgraced former Council Leader, James Alexander, who standing down from the Council in May.
The Liberal Democrats have already announced their candidates for the Guildhall seat.