Khar Gymkhana, considered one of Mumbai’s oldest golf equipment, has cancelled the membership of Indian girls cricket group’s main batter Jemimah Rodrigues.
In response to Khar Gymkhana officers, the motion was taken after some members objected to her father Ivan utilizing the membership premises for “non secular actions” and alleged that occasions had been organised to “convert” the “susceptible”.
The choice to cancel her membership was taken at Sunday’s annual common physique assembly right here. Textual content messages and cellphone calls Monday to Jemimah Rodrigues and her father for feedback remained unanswered.
Confirming the motion, Khar Gymkhana president Vivek Devnani advised The Indian Specific: “The honorary three-year membership given to Ms Jemimah Rodrigues was revoked pursuant to a decision handed by the members who attended the final assembly held on October 20, 2024.”
Khar Gymkhana managing committee member Shiv Malhotra spelled out the explanations. “We got here to know that Jemimah Rodrigues’s father was connected to an organisation known as Brother Manuel Ministries. They booked the presidential corridor for nearly a 12 months and a half and held 35 occasions. Everyone knows what was taking place there,” he mentioned.
“We hear about conversions everywhere in the nation, nevertheless it’s taking place proper beneath our nostril. There was dancing, costly music tools, large screens. As per Khar Gymkhana’s bye-laws Rule 4A of the structure, Khar Gymkhana doesn’t allow any non secular exercise,” Malhotra mentioned.
Former Khar Gymkhana president Nitin Gadekar mentioned he was knowledgeable in regards to the “non secular exercise” by a workers member. “Me, Malhotra and some different members went to see it. We noticed the room was darkish, trance music was enjoying and a girl was saying ‘He’s coming to save lots of us’. I used to be shocked how Gymkhana can permit this within the first place. We protested and it was determined to cancel her membership,” Gadekar mentioned.
In 2023, Khar Gymkhana had invited Jemimah Rodrigues to be a member and use its services.