The Disputed Result of the Adyar Theosophical
Society 2014 Presidential Election
Ruling General Council Loses Control of the
Organisation and Refuses to Communicate with Members
MONEY TO ADYAR?
Adyar Theosophical Society members should
read this posting of 24th June 2014
before
allowing any of their money to be sent to Adyar
Members are clearly paying to support an organisation in which they have
no say and which is run by a leadership which pursues its own elite agenda,
with no regard to the interests of the members that it is supposed to
represent.
If you have any doubts about the situation, try getting a response to
questions about the 2014 presidential election from any General Council member.
Here is the June 24th posting below.
9th July 2014
The Disputed Result of
the Adyar Theosophical Society 2014 Presidential Election
Why Did
The 2014 Election
Go Ahead?
The General Council
was confronted with considerable
evidence that the
election was bent but just stood there
and let it go ahead
Silence
Gives Consent
Can’t
speak, won’t speak does not represent
the
interests of the Adyar Theosophical Society
or
its members.
How much evidence did the General
Council need before it took action? Why did the General Council ignore serious
allegations about the conduct of the 2014 presidential election submitted in
detail by a senior Indian Section official?
Below is an email of April 9th
2014 from Indian General Council member, Krishnaphani Kesiraju to all General
Council members, providing a detailed catalogue of malpractice in the conduct
of the 2014 presidential election. Concerns had already been raised by
Krishnaphani Kesiraju and also by former East and Central African General Secretary
Navin B Shah,
and by South African General Secretary, Jack
Hartmann.
All these concerns were communicated to the General Council, so it had more
than ample reason to take action.
The General Council received this
information from Krishnaphani Kesiraju on April 9th 2014, which was
over two weeks before the announcement of the result on April 27th
and the rushed inauguration on the following day. It did nothing to halt the
election process, and initiate both an enquiry and a fresh election with
appropriate safeguards in place. Given the information below, until these
matters are investigated, members are justified in refusing to accept Tim Boyd
as the elected president.
It can only be speculated that the
General Council members allowed the flawed election process to continue unchallenged
to the announcement of a “winner” and beyond, either because they were too
frightened to do anything, or the bent election result suited them because they
knew that it would facilitate the election of their preferred choice. Their
silence gave consent to cheating the members out of a fair election, but of
course, as far as the aristocratic General Council is concerned, the interests
of the paying members are of no consequence.
The General Council members further
disregarded this information by rubber stamping election organiser,
Chittaranjan Satapathy’s appointment as International Vice-President. The
General Council are clearly too weak to call Mr Satapathy to account for the
conduct of the election, and Tim Boyd is also too timid to demand an enquiry
and until he does so, his status as president will continue to be in dispute.
Tim Boyd must be aware that his presidency is in question, but awaits
instructions from his Adyar masters on this and all other matters.
One reason for the General Council’s
failure to address election irregularities could be its members’ loyalties to
the closed elitist groups for whose benefit the Adyar Theosophical Society in
now run. Far from representing the interests of members or promoting Theosophy,
the current purpose of the Adyar Theosophical Society is to provide facilities
and a power base for elitist groups who are loyal to themselves, and limit
membership to those who will demonstrate a primary loyalty to the group over
and above the interests of the Theosophical Society. The general membership are
just regarded as “Ballast”
to pay remittances and their interests are of no consequence to the leadership.
This is the fraud that the Adyar Theosophical Society has now become.
General Council members are elected to
represent the interests of members and certainly did not do this by allowing a
bent election to proceed. Why not refer this communication to your nearest
General Council members and ask them why they did nothing.
In a further development, on June 18th
2014, Krishnaphani Kesiraju
called on the General Council to suspend the 2014 election result pending an enquiry. At the time of this posting there has
not yet been any response.
Krishnaphani
Kesiraju’s email to all General Council members
cataloguing
irregularities in the 2014 presidential election
Dave Marsland
Posted
June 24th 2014
Theosophical Society Issues
The Tekels Park
Family Eviction
A family has been evicted from their home at Tekels Park
because
a Tekels Park Estate Limited director wanted to live in
their house.
The Adyar Theosophical Society
Will there be an Adyar Free Future?
Adyar’s Slightly International Convention
Membership Decline – The
Elephant in the Room
Adyar Theosophical Society Members
An Extra Box on the Ballot Paper
Suggestion for the 2014 Adyar Theosophical Society
International Presidential Election
Is the 2014 Adyar Presidential Election Invalid?
Radha Burnier Employment
Services
Radha Burnier’s policy of allocating jobs to members of her own
family turned the
Adyar Headquarters into the family firm.
How many suitable
applicants were discounted so that
Radha Burnier
could give a job to a family member?
Despite decades
of decline and stagnation leading the
Adyar
Theosophical Society to the verge of evaporation
or
disintegration, the leadership have so far shown no
sign of coming up
with a strategy for ensuring the
continuation of
the Society as a unified body.
Adyar, the Sole Purpose of Adyar
Revealing that
the Adyar elite’s stately home is under threat
of compulsory land
purchase and can be saved by convincing the
authorities that
it is in fact an international headquarters (if true)
may have given
the Theosophical Society members a brilliant
opportunity to
get Adyar off their backs.
If not true then
it looks like blackmail
An overview of
the Adyar Theosophical Society
Expecting members
to vote for candidates while withholding
highly relevant
information indicates an utter contempt by
the leadership for the general membership
Here is a link to a short film of the
Tekels Park Deer
posted by a Camberley resident.
Everyone opposed to the killing of
the Tekels Park animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fkfw8amMps
International Election Protocol
This is only an
idea for consideration but if the Theosophical elite
continue to treat
the members with the current levels of indifference and
contempt for the
duration of this election then the Adyar Theosophical
Society will be an empty shell by the time it is completed.
The secrecy with
which the Adyar Theosophical Society
leadership
conducts the Society’s affairs is legendary.
Is this secrecy
for its own sake or are some serious
issues being suppressed and kept beyond discussion?
Banging the Drum for Theosophy
Looking forward to the post Adyar era
Family control of
Adyar has reduced the members
of the General Council to the status of town hall officials.
Silence by elected management cheats
the members out of participating in
the
running of their own organisation
Keeping the International Headquarters at
Adyar
The Adyar
Theosophical Society ruling elite denies
members the right
to be consulted on issues and the
ability to convey
their views directly to the leadership.
Why does the
leadership of an organisation
treat its members
like this in the modern era?
Towards a New Model for Theosophy
The Adyar
Theosophical Society Leadership
now isolates
itself within a cult of superiority
while the Society
evaporates around it.
A Theosophical
Society can survive but not
Is this what is
on offer to the Adyar Theosophical
Society's paying
members from a ruling elite
that has a different
agenda from that of the Society?
This election is
really inconvenient for the
leadership, isn’t it?
Why are the
members being hustled into blind
voting?
What are the
leadership’s post-election plans?
An inter-regnum
in the presidency, during which
matters are
discussed, is the only course of action
with a chance of
saving the Adyar Theosophical
Are there plans
to sell Adyar without
A leadership
shutdown combined with a total
news blackout
suggests a serious hidden issue
and an intense
fear of revealing it.
Is the self
imposed isolation of the General Council effectively
a mass
resignation as they have found, after the death of
Radha Burnier, that establishing control of Adyar is too difficult?
Silence is
Killing the Adyar Theosophical Society.
The presidential
candidates are as much victims of the
General Council’s
silence rule as are the members.
The silence rule
also seeks to establish General Council
control over the future president.
Have the Esoteric
Section and the
General Council
merged into one body?
for the Adyar Theosophical Society?
CVK Maithreya
presented plans for the future, in
defiance of
General Council instructions.
Does suppression
of discussion mean that the
Adyar Theosophical Society doesn’t have a future?
Accountable Leadership Urgently Required
The General
Council has abused its power
by putting itself
beyond accountability.
A new leadership is needed, and fast.
Do the members
still have a Society?
Those who have
kept the Society time warped
in the 1930s now
have the task of introducing
reform and they
obviously don’t want to do it.
Left sitting out
in the cold and starved of information,
members now
realise how the General Council regards them
Why not include this picture in any information
request to General Council
officers as an
indication of how members feel they are being treated.
Or just send the picture anyway.
The Adyar
Theosophical Society is decades
out of date and
desperately in need of reform
starting with
getting rid of a leadership that
refuses to be
accountable to the members.
The Royal Court of Radha Burnier
General Council Meeting 2013
Minutes
Making it a bit obvious aren’t you?
Disgraceful Treatment of an
Adyar Employee
A woman sacked
and evicted for complaining.
Given 13 days to
get out of her home.
About General Council Meetings
Looks like there
has been some attempt
by a General
Council member to promote
reform within the
Theosophical Society
Make Your Wife
The Chairperson
Is Adyar Still The Headquarters?
to recover Adyar
for the members?
Good Campaign Pitch, Mr Singhal
Adyar Prepares for the Break-Up
Another Family Power Appointment
Don’t expect the
General Council
to do anything if the election is bent
An appraisal of
the General Council’s commitment
to maintaining
the Adyar Theosophical Society
Nobody sees it, Nobody
hears from it
Is it hiding
somewhere? Does it exist?
Even if the
presidential election is correct and above board,
the confidence in
the General Council has fallen so low
that members won’t believe it.
Haven’t members
been cheated for long enough?
Preethi Muthiah
has highlighted an endemic problem at Adyar,
which the General
Council has ignored for many years.
There are still
no plans implement a grievance procedure and
Anti-bullying policy at Adyar.
Of lady over 70 from her job at Adyar
What the paying
members want has little to do with
this election, as
the silence and lack of information show.
The real purpose
of this election is for the General Council
to deliver the
candidate that the Adyar ruling elite wants.
What Makes this Election Invalid?
Was your vote
forwarded to Adyar?
Was the election
actually held?
Against a
background of silence, a court case and
allegations of irregularities, these are fair questions.
Well, it’s much
easier than being a real president
Democracy in the Adyar Theosophical Society
Well, what can
you expect in an organisation where
the leadership
regards the membership as ballast
Doubts about the
integrity of the election
are left
unresolved, rendering the result invalid.
The Ballast now know their true status
While the President Creeps into Office
By the Adyar
Theosophical Society ruling elite.
No hurry to prove
the election result
But a real hurry to get the president installed
The Adyar
Theosophical Society has become
a multi-level
marketing operation
Doubts about the
election result will
make the
President’s job impossible.
President uses
White Lotus Day
What was the
inauguration for?
Questions now
arise over allocation of Wheaton
resources by a two job president
The exclusion of
Mr Maithreya from the rushed
inauguration was an insult to him and his supporters
of the Adyar Theosophical Society?
And if so, it’s a very ugly face
Is Wheaton Set To Support Adyar?
A two job
president will produce a massive conflict
of interest that
will divide the American Section
Adyar Estate
General Manager reports former
Theosophical
Society Accountant to the police,
resulting in detention and two days of interrogation.
Former Accountant
makes serious allegations
against the Adyar
Estate General Manager.
Did the 2014
Presidential Election take place in a
“If we hand over
the vehicle to the police things will be worse”
on getting
himself inaugurated.
Serious
allegations about a reign of terror at Adyar
are lodged with
the International President.
There is no
response, just silence.
Serious
allegations surround the treatment of staff and
Theosophical
Society members at Adyar, but members find
that the elected president is unable to do anything.
Allegations
against Adyar Estate General Manager,
Mr S Harihara
Raghavan over staff bullying
and threats of
imprisonment are not new.
Preethi Muthiah’s
letters and articles clearly
indicate that the
issue has been around for some years
As it stands only
56% of the poll and 49% of the final vote
can be verified
by section leaderships on the current information.
Tim Boyd
nominates only one candidate for
International
Vice-President and expects the
General Council
members to vote for him.
As many ask if it
is safe to go to Adyar.
An idea for
serious consideration
The General
Council Should Allow
Tim Boyd's
failure to deal with serious allegations will
mean that the
fear of being banged up in police cells
will henceforth haunt visitors to Adyar.
Yet another
source of information
regarding staff bullying at Adyar.
Amnesty
International is widely supported by members
and official
policy of an organisation that refuses
to investigate
allegations, that its own staff and members
are bullied by
the use of threats of imprisonment.
Did you know you were cordially invited to the
bargain basement president’s cut price inauguration?
With proper
safeguards this time
Indian General
Secretary tells the Indian
Section Council
that he is nominating
Tim Boyd – no
discussion – no consultation
With the
unresolved issues raised at that time,
the election
clearly should not have gone ahead.
Tim Boyd
airbrushes his rushed inauguration from history.
Relating to the
conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election.
submitted to
Chittaranjan Satapathy by South African
General
Secretary, Jack Hartmann on March 16th 2014
It becomes clear
that the election committee had
valid evidence
for misconduct but ignored it
Krishnaphani
Kesiraju calls on the governing body
As the Adyar
Theosophical Society
governing body
refuses to govern.
Admit it General
Council, being the governing body of the
Adyar
Theosophical Society is too difficult for you.
True to form, one
month has elapsed and
the President and
General Council have failed to
investigate Mr M
Kannan’s allegations of bullying.
This is the clear message as the International
President and General Council ignore
bullying allegations at Adyar.
General Council Ignores Calls to
The Presidential Election Result
and a leadership unable to handle it
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The
Adyar Theosophical Society has
representation
in the following countries
and
regions
Africa-East
and Central Africa-South
Africa
- West America-Central
Argentina
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Australia
Austria Bangladesh
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Bolivia Brazil Canada
Chile
Colombia Costa Rica Croatia
Cuba
Dominican Republic England
Finland
France Germany Greece
Hungary
Iceland India Indonesia
Ireland
Israel Italy Ivory Coast
Mexico
Netherlands New Zealand
Norway
Orlando Pakistan Peru
Philippines
Portugal Puerto Rico
Qatar
Russia Scotland Slovenia
Spain
Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland
Togo
Ukraine USA Uruguay Wales
The
Adyar Theosophical Society also has the following
regional
organisations
The
Council of the European Federation of National Societies
Inter-American
Theosophical Federation
Indo-Pacific
Theosophical Federation
Pan-African
Theosophical Federation
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Links
to other News Boards
The Future of the Adyar Theosophical Society
The
Theosophical Community
"There is no religion
higher than truth!"
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