It promises to be a sizzling Sunday at the quiet St Andrews Road tomorrow, August 9, and the sizzle has nothing to do with the mercury. Bandra Gymkhana members are set to congregate for an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) at the East Indian Hall from 10 am, which has on its agenda to "consider and if thought fit, to pass — with or without modification — the following resolution: "Resolved that Dr Cheryl Misquitta be and is hereby removed from the office of President of the Bandra Gymkhana with immediate effect, and that she shall cease to hold the said office and all rights, privileges, and authority attached thereto with immediate effect; AND FURTHER RESOLVED THAT (the notice has this in capital) the Managing Committee be and is hereby authorised to take all steps necessary to give effect to this resolution, including the filling of the resultant vacancy in accordance with the Rules of the Gymkhana." The resolution has to be put to a vote, which the notice says will be done by SECRET BALLOT. The results are expected on the same day. 

A potboiler

While members did not give their names, a supporter of the present committee claimed that Dr Misquitta liked to “cling to power” and, “there was a lot of mismanagement at the club.” Yet, Dr Misquitta’s supporter said, “Those opposed to her must know that the earlier committee increased the club corpus from '42 crore to '100 crore in six years. People were so happy with the number of events, etc.” On the accusation that the previous committee was taking in non-Christian members and there is a fear that the flavour of a primarily East Indian club would be diluted, the Bandra Gym member said, “We have a fixed ratio for membership for Christians and non-Christians, and that was being adhered to.”