Lodha counters APL committee’s decision not to support his reappointment

Birla Corporation Chairman Harsh Vardhan Lodha on Tuesday countered a court-appointed committee’s decision to not support a resolution seeking his reappointment as director on the board of two group entities — Vindhya Telelinks and Birla Cable. “The board of a company is supreme as far as decisions regarding it are concerned,” he said. The Administrator Pendente Lite (APL) committee to administer the estate of Priyamvada Birla until there’s a final order in the decade-and-a-half-old dispute between the Birlas and the Rajendra Lodha family over control of the MP Birla Group. The dispute began in 1999 over the purported will of Priyamvada Birla, bequeathing her entire estate to Rajendra Singh Lodha, and is now in its last leg with probate proceedings that started eight months back.