In responding to Mr Akhtar’s letter regarding the Tory group defeat at the council election, it seems Mr Boakes could only come out with personal attacks (“Time for him to leave the limelight”, Your Views, June 5).

But then he is used to it as he has been creating and availing himself of opportunities to run a campaign against Mr Akhtar under one pretext or the other — all because some of us have been exposing people we see as political ‘wrong-doers’.

His reference to the standards hearing where he was a witness against Mr Akhtar is laughable as
no one believes or cares about the outcome of this hearing under the shortlived Tory group administration.

Equally laughable is his assertion that the hearing had something to do with Mr Akhtar’s decision not to stand for the council election; we
collectively announced that we would not stand because we did not want to divide the Labour vote.

We, including Mr Akhtar and our monitoring organisations, have been working for the community for the past 30 years and will continue doing so irrespective of the venom that Mr Boakes and others propagate.

Dr Pravin Shah

Harrow Monitoring Group