{"id":1036696,"date":"2026-09-18T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036696"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:37:34","slug":"noel-tata-opposes-chandrasekarans-reappointment-calls-tata-sons-board-vote-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/noel-tata-opposes-chandrasekarans-reappointment-calls-tata-sons-board-vote-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Tata opposes Chandrasekaran\u2019s reappointment, calls Tata Sons board vote \u2018illegal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Trusts Chairman Noel N Tata has called the Tata Sons board&#8217;s decision to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as executive chairman for another five years &#8220;illegal&#8221;, setting the stage for a fresh leadership dispute at the Tata Group holding company. <\/p>\n<p>Tata Sons&#8217; board on Thursday approved Chandrasekaran&#8217;s reappointment by a majority vote, weeks after the 63-year-old chairman told directors he did not intend to seek another term when his current tenure ends on February 20, 2027. Noel Tata voted against the resolution and recorded his dissent, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Trusts Chairman Noel N Tata has called the Tata Sons board&#8217;s decision to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as executive chairman for another five years &#8220;illegal&#8221;, setting the stage for a fresh leadership dispute at the Tata Group holding company. Tata Sons&#8217; board on Thursday approved Chandrasekaran&#8217;s reappointment by a majority vote, weeks after the 63-year-old chairman told directors he did not intend to seek another term when his current tenure ends on February 20, 2027. Noel Tata voted against the resolution and recorded his dissent, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036696","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=1036696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036706,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036696\/revisions\/1036706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}