Even as Tata Sons appeals to Tata Group stakeholders to remove ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry from the board of all group companies, Mistry has put out yet another statement. This time the target of Mistry’s wrath is Tata Sons’ director, Vijay Singh.
Mistry claims that Singh, as Defence Secretary, was a key official involved in awarding the controversial helicopter contract to AgustaWestland.
He also claimed that Singh had given him a very favourabe review till as recently as June 2016, but is now “concocting theories’’ to defend his role in “Ratan Tata’s conspiracy to remove Cyrus Mistry”.
Singh is a former bureaucrat who retired as the Defence Secretary in 2007. He is also one of the Tata Trusts’ nominated members on the Tata Sons board.
A close aide of Ratan Tata, he had chaired the significant meeting on 24 October, when Mistry was removed as the chairman of Tata Sons.
(With inputs from BloombergQuint and ANI)
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