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The interior differences betwixt the 2 warring factions of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) are retired successful the open. While the Annual General Meeting (AGM) convened by president Meghana Ahlawat connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) suspended secretary-general Kamlesh Mehta, a Special General Meeting (SGM) convened by Mehta past week had questioned the legality of the AGM successful itself.
Multiple members who attended Wednesday’s (January 28, 2026) gathering confirmed that the AGM suspended Mehta, a seven-times National champion and two-times Olympian, with contiguous effect and handed the complaint to Yatin Tipnis, who had mislaid to Mehta successful the election.
While issuing the AGM announcement connected January 6, Ahlawat, woman of erstwhile TTFI main Dushyant Chautala, had written to the members: “Despite the circulation of the projected docket points a fewer days agone and a ceremonial petition to the caput wide to convene the Executive Committee Meeting and the Annual General Meeting connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026), nary effect has been received from Mehta, nor has immoderate authoritative announcement been issued for the said meetings.”
However, connected January 17, an SGM called by Mehta successful Mumbai and chaired by Padmaja Menon, elder vice president, had nullified by the AGM. “The House unanimously resolved that the AGM announcement and docket circulated by the President are unconstitutional and invalid. The contiguous Special General Meeting, convened connected requisition by much than one-third of members, is law and legally valid,” stated the draught minutes.
