Leeds City Council invoked the wrath of many local people after it revealed it had cancelled this year's event in Middleton Park over safety fears after trouble flared last year.
The YEP has been inundated with scores of letters from people angry with the Lib Dem, Conservative and Green alliance which runs the council.
Coun Stuart Bruce, who represents Middleton Park for Labour, has already hit out at the decision to cancel this year's bonfire.
And today he accused the city's 'Rainbow alliance' of a North/South bias when it came to deciding whether to let the event go ahead.
Trouble
Coun Bruce said: "One of the issues for me is that there has been, in previous years, trouble at the Roundhay Park bonfire in north Leeds and the council came up with the solution of more security.
"It seems like a slap in the face to south Leeds that the council's solution is to cancel the Middleton Park bonfire since it has coped with trouble elsewhere before.
"All three Middleton Park councillors, myself, Judith Blake and Geoff Driver, were at the bonfire last year and none of us saw any trouble.
"I have since found out it happened after the bonfire finished when the site was being cleared up."
The councillors said the decision sent out the wrong message to community groups who were trying to help regenerate the park and the area.
One group, the Friends of Middleton Park (FOMP), has started a petition in a bid to show the level of public objection.
More than 100 signatures have been collected with petitions available to sign in local shops and businesses throughout Middleton.
FOMP community development worker Jenna Oxley said: "We are totally opposed to the cancellation of what is such an important event to the community.
"We hope to send a delegation to the next full council meeting on November 1 to ask that the bonfire be put back on."
Coun Bruce said the petition would be presented sometime next week.
But Leeds City Council remained defiant.
Order
A spokesman said: "There will be no bonfire this year due to serious public order issues over the last three years including the overturning of a police van. Therefore the safety of both the public and staff is at stake.
"Professional opinion was commissioned this year from the health and safety market leaders.
"The report concluded that a large amount of money would need to be spent, especially in terms of fencing the lake and the fact that there is only one access/egress point.
"Therefore it is not possible to cope with both the health and safety issues and the public order issues. In conclusion, we are putting the public interest first."
charles.heslett@ypn.co.uk