{"id":1036655,"date":"2026-09-18T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036655"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:21:55","slug":"tata-trusts-says-board-vote-to-keep-chandrasekaran-in-the-saddle-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/tata-trusts-says-board-vote-to-keep-chandrasekaran-in-the-saddle-is-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Trusts says board vote to keep Chandrasekaran in the saddle is illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Within hours of a 4:1 vote reappointing incumbent Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran for a third five-year term, a major battle has broken out, with the owners, Tata Trusts, issuing a public statement calling the board decision \u201cillegal\u201d on the grounds that not only was his resignation \u201caccepted by the trusts and had attained finality\u201d, but also that the reappointment vote is a \u201clegal nullity\u201d as the trusts chairman Noel Tata voted against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Within hours of a 4:1 vote reappointing incumbent Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran for a third five-year term, a major battle has broken out, with the owners, Tata Trusts, issuing a public statement calling the board decision \u201cillegal\u201d on the grounds that not only was his resignation \u201caccepted by the trusts and had attained finality\u201d, but also that the reappointment vote is a \u201clegal nullity\u201d as the trusts chairman Noel Tata voted against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036675,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036655\/revisions\/1036675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}