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Voting in the Hamilton City Council East Ward by-election will open on Friday.
The by-election will seek a new councillor after former senior councillor Ry
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Gaurav Sharma is embraced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern following the delivery of his maiden speech. Sharma also spoke about his experiences copping xenophobic abuse while on the campaign trail in Hamilton. “In 2017, I found some people who refused to shake my hand, not because they did not believe in my political ideology or that of my party s policies but because my skin tone did not match theirs. “In the more recent election, I woke up one morning to find out that one lovely Hamiltonian was harassed and verbally abused by two sets of people for having signs supporting ‘a curry candidate’. Racial discrimination is not new to me. Neither in politics nor in other spheres of life.”