"Reforming the BPP” (Editorial Viewpoint, Parsiana, May 21-June 6, 2019) and "Give peace a chance,” in the same issue, on the recent extraordinary general meeting of The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India held in Bombay on May 5, 2019, were illuminating as well as abhorrent.
Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Yazdi Desai hired bouncers donning blue safari suits to be present at the meeting held at the Banaji Atash Behram Annexe Hall. It is a shame that Desai should have displayed this authoritarianism! As a former chief executive officer of the BPP (1997-2006) I can say that the Punchayet’s board was a divided one even before I joined it. But never did it descend to such a level as it has today.
An urgent reform is called for. The trustees should, by a majority, be granted the right to remove an unwelcome chairman. If British Prime Minister Theresa May could be ousted, why not a BPP chairman? BEHRAM T. DASTUR
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