A charity is being unfairly targeted according to the former leader of the council.

Flash Musicals, the Mayoral charity who offer the opportunities to young people to get involved in performing arts, had the £72,000 it owed in rent to Harrow Council wiped away in the final hours of the Independent Labour reign in September.

The timing and manor of how the long-standing issues over Flash Musical's lease opened Independent Labour up to criticism from the council's Tory and Labour groups claiming people had been inadequately consulted, however Independent Labour's leader Thaya Idaikkadar believes the charity is the victim of a political witch hunt.

He told the Observer: "As far as I am aware, there was no consultation on any lease that Harrow Council has done, so why are they asking for one in the case of Flash Musicals? Why are they being treated unfairly?

"Previous administrations led by David Ashton (Conservative) and Bill Stephenson (Labour) were afraid to take decisive action, so I had to. If the council consulted on every lease, all they would ever do 365 days a year would be carry out consultations. You cannot run a business like that."

Tories and Labour demanded a call-in committee to scrutinise the decision in which they voted that the decision be stalled and referred to the council's executive. The concern is that Flash Musicals, which has a annual rent market value of £25,000, would have their rent changed to £18,500 in the new 10-year lease of which the charity will pay £7,000 and the remainder will be paid for by Harrow Council, who would offset the money in return for the services the charity provide to the borough.

Since the decision was reversed however, little has happened.

Mr Idaikkadar said: "This is a charity that is based in a very deprived area, do a lot of work with disabled children and nobody knows where we are. There is confusion everywhere. They rejected my proposal, so why do they not come up with their own proposal?"

David Perry, leader of the Labour Group, said: " The council must take decisions in an open and transparent way, and this decision shows a lack of respect to the voluntary and community sector in Harrow. The council has spent years of hard work building trust with the voluntary sector, and decisions like this put that built up trust in jeopardy."