IN the run up to the General Election on May 6, the Harrow Times is featuring daily profiles on the candidates vying for your votes in Brent and Harrow.

Today features Harshadbhai Patel, Conservative candidate for Brent North.

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Harshadbhai has been a councillor in Brent for the last 14 years, having moved to this country from India in 1977.

He is standing as the Conservative candidate for Brent North, and says as Mayor of Brent he made 570 visits to organisations across the borough during the year.

A qualified barrister who has worked as a financial advisor, he has served as a governor for Wembley Manor School and Preston Manor High School, and has helped raise substantial funds for the Shree Sattavis Gam Patidar Centre.

He puts as one of his key priorities a commitment to defend A&E services at Northwick Park Hospital, and has highlighted the problems on Brent streets like flytipping, littering, and paan spitting.

Harshadbhai pledges to be an MP for the residents of Brent North, and has put in his election campaign promises to tackle illegal parking outside Preston Road tube station, fighting for a new swimming pool in Roe Green Park and protecting health services at Stag Lane Clinic.

The married father-of-four adds: “I am very much looking forward to being elected as your MP with your support.”