Mumbai: NSCI members issued notice over 'parallel' government

The NSCI club at WorliA minutes mayhem is unfolding at Worlis swish NSCI club and this latest tumultuous chapter is rocking the member base At least 16 members from the National Sports Club of India NSCI in Mumbai have received a Show Cause notice from the club dated March 18 charging them with sending out parallel minutes of the Annual General Meeting AGM of the clubThe notice which is signed by NSCI Hon Secretary General Atul Maru says that this is grave misconduct and intentionally tarnishing the reputation and procedural rules of the club Your said act is not only disrespectful towards the Managing Committee of the Club hellip it goes on to say that the act of sending the minutes without appropriate authority and prior to the approval of the Chairman presiding over the AGM by way of signature is a grave and serious conduct which is willful deliberate and malafidehellipParallel GovernmentMaru says We have served a show cause notice to a handful of people because you cannot have a parallel govt running in the club I do not see what was the urgency in sending out these so called minutes of the AGM even before the official minutes are out One cannot supersede the elected managing committee and circulate such informationThe United Front which is a group of club members opposing the current Management Committee known also as the Action Team in NSCI says they had a duty to point out various discrepancies in the clubTheir 20page minutes of the Annual General Meeting conducted on February 21 begins with a disclaimer stating We the members who were feel that the club management Action Team has not lived up to its promise of working with transparency and accountability and therefore we are compelled to record our minuteshellip it goes on to state that we at no point of time claim that these minutes are sacrosanct or 100 per cent accurate However as the Management Action Team had video recorded the entire proceedings with 2 cameras one facing the Management and the other pointed at the members gathered if the Management feels that our minutes fail to convey the factual position of any discussion we would request them to please share a copy of the unedited recording of the entire meeting so that we may verifycross check the true version of the proceeding and correct our recordsstand to reflect the truthhellipThe last paragraph of the disclaimer that runs into an entire page states that our intentions are extremely clean and noble and we harbour no maliciousmischievous vindictivehostile intent towards the Management Action Team or towards our second home The ClubNo answersThe management scoffs not malicious claim and Maru said that the action was a violation and they have not acted in the framework of the lawOne of the members who has been slapped with the show cause said we are not acting as a parallel Govt We have made a disclosure in our disclaimer that this is not 100 per cent accurateThe opposing United Front claimed in an email accompanying their minutes that they had raised important and pertinent queries and for some queries the Management Action Team offered replies for some they had no replies and for some others they sought time to send replies within a certain time periodThey were hesitant to show the various agreements contracts that the Management Action Team has entered into with the 3rd Party managers operators but due to the members persistent demand they had to relent and have promised inspection to members who may seek to view the samehellipThe management stresses the action is tantamount to playing mischief with an intentional and deliberate act attempted to mislead and cause injury to the members of the club while the United Front which also claims that the show cause notice is also aimed to dent our unity and divide us says that these minutes are essential reading for those worried about the financial state of the club