Divali Nagar fallout deepens as another board exec resigns

Akash Sama­roo

Dr Shane Mo­hammed has be­come the lat­est mem­ber to quit the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) board in a fall­out over Blue Wa­ters’ spon­sor­ship of this year’s event, af­ter sev­er­al state en­ti­ties with­drew their sup­port. He is al­so ac­cus­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion of al­low­ing an un­true claim that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar cut fund­ing for Di­vali Na­gar 2026 to go un­cor­rect­ed.

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