Mohammed quits NCIC board over ‘untrue’ Nagar funding claims

An­oth­er ap­point­ed mem­ber has quit the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture’s board, with Dr Shane Mo­hammed ac­cus­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion of al­low­ing an un­true claim that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar cut fund­ing for Di­vali Na­gar 2026 to go un­cor­rect­ed.

In his res­ig­na­tion let­ter to NCIC pres­i­dent Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo, Mo­hammed said the un­cor­rect­ed nar­ra­tive had brought the Prime Min­is­ter and her of­fice in­to dis­re­pute.

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“In the past week, a nar­ra­tive in the pub­lic’s do­main that the Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter pulled the plug on fund­ing for Di­vali Na­gar 2026 has not been cor­rect­ed. This is cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly un­true!”