A MUSLIM backlash over Salman Rushdie was blamed for kicking a leading political figure out of County Hall.
Labour's Len Proos was defeated by Conservative candidate Abdul Bhikha.
Muslim leaders urged people to vote Tory, because the county's Labour group had refused to ban the controversial Salman Rushdie book, The Satanic Verses, from libraries.
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