The 2024 NSW Local Government elections are just around the corner and this time there are record number of Indian-origin candidates in the fray especially in Sydney and its suburbs. Almost a hundred candidates (96 in total) including Independents of Indian-origin are contesting from various councils across NSW.
Several Indian-origin Councillors across party lines are re-contesting their seats. Sameer Pandey (Parramatta), Raj Datta (Strathfield), Moninder Singh (Blacktown) and Khushpinder Kaur (Blacktown) from Labor, Reena Jethi (The Hills Shire), Sreeni Pillamarri (Epping) from Liberals and Sandhya (Sandy) Reddy (Strathfield) from Liberals are all in the contest to keep their seats. Ms Reddy had contested and won as an Independent in the previous elections.
There are also several new entrants on the block including Manjula Viswanath (The Hills Shire), Satvik Sharma (Strathfield), Mandeep Sunny Singh (Pittwater), Vijay Sharma (Rosehill) and Samyuta Pillamarri (Hornsby) from Liberal and Dr Neeraj Duggal (Blacktown), Vivek Goyal (Canada Bay), Mithun Chakraborty (Rosehill) and Ahalya Rentala (Blacktown) from Labor. We also have Dr Saba Nabi OAM standing as an Independent from Wagga Wagga. Others who are contesting include Mohit Kumar, (Blacktown) and Pradeep Pathi (Blacktown) from the Liberals.
The NSW Local Government Elections will be held on 14th September 2024. You can get all the information about the elections and candidates from the NSW Local Elections website. Do exercise your fundamental duty and vote for your local council elections and good luck to all the candidates.