The appointment of a Zoroastrian representative to the National Commission for Minorities has become a major community controversy
The flip-flop by the Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) president and Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Yazdi Desai over nominating former BPP trustee Dinshaw Tamboly to the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has brought the government mandated body into the community’s sharp focus.
From left: Yazdi Desai, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Dinshaw Tamboly
Appointing a Zoroastrian representative to the NCM is usually a non-event. Most Parsis are barely aware of the body’s existence and have little concept of what it does or who the Zoroastrian representative is. Thus the proposed appointment of Tamboly, managing trustee of the......