© Muhammad Haque picture of Lutfur at 164 Brick Lane, Tuesday 15 Feb 2011

© Muhammad Haque picture of Lutfur at 164 Brick Lane, Tuesday 15 Feb 2011

0935 [0905] Hrs GMT London Tuesday 18 December 2012. This © Muhammad Haque picture of Lutfur Rahman at 164 Brick Lane, Tuesday 15 Feb 2011 was taken after Lutfur Rahman had visited a project called HEBA. 

INTERESTINGLY [as the “Chinese” proverb has it, in my picture is ALSO SEEN Aman Dalvi

I shall; have quite a bit to write and say about Aman Dalvi and 164 Brick Lane, in the not too distant future

That will be after MY LEGAL BILLS have been sorted, unlike Mr Dalvi’s.

I hear that he TOOK LUTFUR’s “Council” to court and has just reached a settlement and part of the settlement is that he gets his legal costs paid by the Council

Heba had been one of the “target” organisations in “the community” that both Lutfur Rahman and Abbas Uddin Helal had visited in 2010 in the run up to the “election”, held in October that year for an “executive mayor” in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.

I told Lutfur BEFORE he went into the meeting on Tuesday 15 February 2011 that he should support Heba and he gave me his earnest pledge that he would do.

As I spoke to Lutfur while getting him to pose for my pictures, Aman Dalvi whispered a question to Lutfur as to who I was!

Mr Dalvi has been reasonably aware of me since then. And he has been actively studying some of the reports about the address 164 Brick Lane in the very recent past.

More on that address in a day or two

My support for Heba is based on the work of Kay Jordan. 

As in so many initiatives helping the local community in a "structured" way, Kay Jordan has been the soul and the spirit generating the Heba project.

I was moved to tears when she wept about Heba’s fun ding. That was in the middle of 2010.

Tired and exhausted, Kay said that she was heart-broken thinking that she might have ti let some of the women go as she could not pay them!

I told her that as soon as she was ready to get me going about defending Heba, I would would be there to do everything to raise funds for Heba.

She said she was still doing the other, equally urgent things that her community of paid staff needed her to keep in funds and in operating condition..

Another big worry was the renewal of the contract for the Montefiore Centre.

That came along as a priority which kept Kay worried for a good few weeks in a most intense, stressed way.

So she was down worried sick for the contract with Tower Hamlets Council over the Montefiore Centre which building [the look, the accessibility, the atmosphere] she had made so much better than it ever had been.

Again, I said that I would do everything to help raise the funds for the Montefiore as soon as she told me she was ready and that she had concluded the formal communications with the Council

And we were doing other activities for the community

The All Volunteers News! One of the most exciting things that she came up with was to start publishing the ALL VOLUNTEERS NEWS bulletins on the outside walls of the Montefiore Centre so the local community could see what was going on....

Two days from today, on Thursday 20 December 2012, we will be publishing the 2nd annual UPDATER reports on Kay Jordan in the community, since the lunch that I had with Kay on Thursday 23 December 2010.

I had that lunch at the Montefiore Centre where Kay set up the architecture for the creation of the community library that I had brought there......

That library was part of the community education and action resources centres that we had been working to set up at 160 Brick Lane and in other parts of the Brick Lane London E1 area........

[To be continued]