Author, activist, and journalist Bianca Mugyenyi’s application to be a candidate in the NDP leadership race has been rejected by the party’s anonymous three person leadership committee. READ MORE: NDP leadership committee rejects Yves Engler’s candidacy applicationMugyenyi announced her intent to run for the NDP leadership after Engler was disqualified, explaining that there were issues in the leadership race that no other candidates were talking about that needed a voice. She said that the NDP leadership committee had implied that she was merely a proxy for Engler as a way for him to continue his own campaign. Mugyenyi blasted the leadership committee, characterizing their rationale for her disqualification as racist and sexist. “Whether we would have won this race, I don’t know, but there we would definitely have been in the top three in this NDP leadership race,” he said.