fashion slugfestof signs after the meeting on may 27 a letter was sent to all the media houses stating that a majority of the members of the former and the current board have met and backed sumeet nair ed of fdci the document had signatures of rathi vinay jha director general of fdci ritu kumar rohit gandhi rohit bal rahul khanna leena singh jj valaya namrata joshipura abhishek gupta and varun bahl when contacted jj was surprised to know that a letter with all the signatures was sent there was a small time lag between my signing and then cancelling my signature and thats when the mail may have been sent my request for a correction mail has been sent to fdci i feel there are certain areas in which i still need clarifications i will give my final say only when i am clear rathi added jj valaya and i have withdrawn our signatures because the matter is subjudice the requisition has been taken back of resigns ashish soni has resigned from his post as the president of fdci and as a board member of fdci during the meeting on may 27 it was also communicated to the board that david abraham has resigned as a board member of fdci nof a new setup sources now say that the socalled weaker group of the board which comprises karuna khaitan bobby grover niki mahajan and pali sachdev is planning to make its own fashion council whether this happens or not only time will tell the source saidof aborted meetings the board meeting planned for today has been cancelled thats because an array of meetings have already taken place and designers feel a meetingfatigue has set inafter the fdci board meeting on tuesday toi spoke to some designers who attended and some who didnt to get reactions from both camps in the design fraternity7nainika karan fdci memberthis whole fight amongst the members of fdci is pretty crazy i have just come back to the country and the only thing i had been reading were the mails i felt really bad i hope it does not affect the fashion scene it is very unfortunate to see what is happening i think sumeet nair is a very efficient ed also gauri and i are against the whole group system disrupting any organisationjattinn kochhar 8board memberthe amendment that was proposed has been cancelled i just have a problem with the whole raj system that exists i am not for or against anyone i just have some queries that some other colleagues of mine also have and so we have by default fallen in the same category but i must clarify that i am not a part of any club or group there are problems to be sorted out and i hope that happens soonanju modi 8former board memberthe requisition has been taken back karuna khaitan and i are still not in favour of sumeet nair continuing as the ed of fdci the outgoing board