After ex-BPP president Yazdi Desai handed in his resignation last week, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) unanimously elected its seniormost board member Mrs Armaity Tirandaz as the new chairperson of the BPP.

The decision was taken at a virtual meeting on Tuesday at 5.30 pm, for which trustees Kersi Randeria and Noshir Dadarawala tuned in from the BPP board room. After Desai's resignation was unanimously accepted and his services to the trust and community appreciated and taken on record, seniormost trustee Armaity Tirandaz was appointed chairperson.