Indian candidates Council elections 2020Moti Visa Guri Singh

This month all local councils (except the Casey City Council, South Gippsland Shire Council and Whittlesea City Council) in the state of Victoria are going to elect new councillors. Usually quiet achievers, the Indian diaspora is now also knocking on the power corridors if their interest in these elections is any guide. More than 130 Indian candidates of Indian /Asian origin have filed their nominations with the Victorian Electoral Commission.

There are people not only of Indian origin in the fray; there are Pakistani, Afghani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan Australians who are contesting in 2020. There are a small number of people who had tried their luck last time. Although they could not win last time but that has not dampened their spirit and are more energized this time to make it.

Interestingly there are certain pockets in Melbourne – Wyndham(42), Melton(12), Dandenong(12), Hume(11), Monash(8), Cardinia(9) and Darebin(4) where there are multiple Indian candidates not only fighting against mainstream candidates but also against our own, such is the intensity of the battle this time. Take a look:

Count Candidate Name Council Name
1. Aijaz Moinuddin Wyndham
2. ALAA SULTAN Wyndham
3. Ali Hashmi Wyndham
4. Amandeep Kaur Wyndham
5. Arnav Sati Wyndham
6. Ashok Sherwal Wyndham
7. Azhar Habib Wyndham
8. Balwant Singh Wyndham
9. Bir Bharti Wyndham
10. Bobby Lakra Wyndham
11. Dhiren Trivedi Wyndham
12. Firas Hasan Wyndham
13. Gary Grewal Wyndham
14. Geetanjali GABA Wyndham
15. Ghanshyam Ramani Wyndham
16. Hasan Naim Wyndham
17. KAMALDIP KAHMA Wyndham
18. Kamran Javed Wyndham
19. Kapil Thakkar Wyndham
20. Karnav Thakar Wyndham
21. Karnjit Singh Wyndham
22. Ketankumar N. Patel Wyndham
23. Khaled Ajaj Wyndham
24. Khalid Farooq Wyndham
25. KHALID HASSAN Wyndham
26. Lateefuddin Mohammed Wyndham
27. Md Mofizul Islam Wyndham
28. MEHAK SHEIKH Wyndham
29. Monty Prajapati Wyndham
30. Munish Joshi Wyndham
31. Navpreet Singh Wyndham
32. Nusrat Islam Wyndham
33. Pratibha Sharma Wyndham
34. Preet Singh Wyndham
35. Ramesh Sahana Wyndham
36. Rishi Prabhakara Wyndham
37. Rohit Singh Wyndham
38. Sachin Khera Wyndham
39. Sayeed Aslam Wyndham
40. Tawhid Millat Patwary Wyndham
41. Tejpreet Singh Wyndham
42. Zahid MAZUMDER Wyndham
43. Ajay Pasupulate Melton
44. Deepti Alurkar Melton
45. Golam Haque Melton
46. Gurjant Singh Melton
47. Gurpreet Verma Melton
48. Kubir Lal KHANAL Melton
49. Kunwarpal Singh Melton
50. Mano Perera Melton
51. Rajinder Klair Melton
52. Shalini Ashika Kumar Melton
53. Sukhpreet Singh Maan Melton
54. Surinder Singh Brar Melton
55. Ujjala Camilleri Melton
56. Vivek Sharma Melton
57. Ali Awan Hume
58. Chalaka Jayasingha Hume
59. Chandra Bamunusinghe Hume
60. Guri Singh Hume
61. Ravi Raguapathy Hume
62. Ravinder Kaur Hume
63. Sarwan Singh Sandhu Hume
64. Shezad Ali Hume
65. Khalid Suhale Shukoor Hume
66. Smiley Sandhu Hume
67. Taqdir Singh Deol Hume
68. Abdirahman I. Ali Melbourne
69. Jamal Hakim Melbourne
70. Moti Visa Melbourne
71. Safaa Hakim Melbourne
72. Amit Patel Monash
73. Anamika Anamika Monash
74. Anjalee de Silva Monash
75. Chitra Dhanalakshmi Angappan Monash
76. Mazharul Chowdhury Monash
77. Narendra Kushwaha Monash
78. Naureen Choudhry Monash
79. Shashi Kochhar Monash
80. Anab Mohamud Yarra
81. Sandeep Sarathy Yarra
82. Anne Makhijani Whitehorse
83. Nildhara Gadani Whitehorse
84. Ash Verma Darebin
85. Khush Singh Darebin
86. Nulliah Suryakumaran Darebin
87. Tim Laurence Darebin
88. BEVINAKOPPA  Gandhi Kingston
89. Rez Chowdhury Kingston
90. Suren Surender Kingston
91. Bikram Singh Mitchell
92. Jasdeep Kochar Mitchell
93. Vasalia Govender Mitchell
94. Brijlal Parikh Cardinia
95. Jasbir Suropada Cardinia
96. Manbir Singh Cardinia
97. Mandeep Premi Cardinia
98. Nav Malhi Cardinia
99. Nav Singh Dhanoha Cardinia
100. NavDeep Singh Bal Cardinia
101. Nilesh Kumar Patel Cardinia
102. Shoeheli Sunjida Cardinia
103. Dev Oza Glen Eira
104. Geraldine Gonzalves Dandenong
105. Hayat Rahimi Dandenong
106. Irfan Syed Dandenong
107. Liaqat Khan Dandenong
108. Madhu Warnakulasuriya Dandenong
109. Moonsamy Naidoo Dandenong
110. Neelima Perika Dandenong
111. Pradeep Hewavitharana Dandenong
112. Ravi Shannkar Dandenong
113. Sam Sheree Dandenong
114. Suresh Shanmugam Dandenong
115. Vivekkumar Desai Dandenong
116. Chintan Bharwada Stonnington
117. Sonali Sanghvi Stonnington
118. Thurairajah Shanmugapalan Manningham
119. Jay BHAT Maroondah
120. Rajdeep Kaur Kang Maribyrnong
121. Muhammad Nisar Ul Murtaza Moreland
122. Praveen Kumar Moreland
123. Shanaka Perera Moreland
124. Philip Prasad Frankston
125. Rupinder Singh Frankston
126. Prabhat Gaur Moorabool
127. Ranbir Lambra Hobsons Bay
128. Shavita Kotak Hobsons Bay
129. Harpreet Walia Brimbank
130. Syed Tanveer Hussain Brimbank

Let us hope a good number of our Indian candidates make it this time and we can see some Indians making their contribution to the state building and local decision making.

Make your Indian candidates win this 2020 Council elections!

By Singh