{"id":1037212,"date":"2026-09-21T08:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037212"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:55:25","slug":"tata-trusts-challenges-chandrasekarans-reappointment-says-casting-vote-cannot-override-aoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/tata-trusts-challenges-chandrasekarans-reappointment-says-casting-vote-cannot-override-aoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Trusts challenges Chandrasekaran&#8217;s reappointment, says casting vote cannot override AoA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tata Trusts has challenged the validity of Tata Sons&#8217; September 17 decision to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as chairman, arguing that the company&#8217;s Articles of Association require affirmative support from a majority of its Trust-nominated directors and that a chairman&#8217;s casting vote cannot override that condition. <\/p>\n<p>The boardroom battle at India&#8217;s largest conglomerate escalated last week after Tata Sons&#8217; directors approved a fresh term for executive chairman N Chandrasekaran in a vote that the group&#8217;s biggest shareholder called illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tata Trusts has challenged the validity of Tata Sons&#8217; September 17 decision to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as chairman, arguing that the company&#8217;s Articles of Association require affirmative support from a majority of its Trust-nominated directors and that a chairman&#8217;s casting vote cannot override that condition. The boardroom battle at India&#8217;s largest conglomerate escalated last week after Tata Sons&#8217; directors approved a fresh term for executive chairman N Chandrasekaran in a vote that the group&#8217;s biggest shareholder called illegal.<\/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-1037212","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\/1037212","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=1037212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037216,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037212\/revisions\/1037216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}