NCIC board calls for Mangaroo’s head over Divali Nagar funding fiasco

Akash Sama­roo

Grow­ing dis­sat­is­fac­tion with­in the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has led to calls from with­in its board for pres­i­dent Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo to step down, amid ac­cu­sa­tions that his han­dling of re­cent con­tro­ver­sies has dam­aged the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s rep­u­ta­tion and ex­posed di­rec­tors to per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al con­se­quences.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that sev­er­al di­rec­tors have lost con­fi­dence in Man­ga­roo’s lead­er­ship, par­tic­u­lar­ly over his han­dling of the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Blue Wa­ters’ spon­sor­ship of Di­vali Na­gar 2026 and his pub­lic ex­changes with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.