Indian-Origin Candidates Line Up For Leicester Mayor Role In UK
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Sanjay Modhwadia has been campaigning to push for a "Made in Leicester" brand.London: Two Indian-origin candidates are lined up to go head-to-head for the post of Leicester Mayor in the local elections coming up in the UK early next month.Conservative Party councillor Sanjay Modhwadia will compete with Rita Patel, a former Labour councillor who announced her bid recently in order to scrap the role. Ms Patel, a Rushey Mead councillor from Leicester who will run as an independent, launched her campaign saying the city needed "a fresh start" and promised one of her first jobs will be to remove the mayoral role.Sitting Labour Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, expressed disappointment at Ms Patel's exit from the party after she was one of four city councillors suspended for six months for thei...