With the tension between the trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) growing over the past couple of months, an 'extraordinary general meeting' of the members of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) called by BPP chairman Yazdi Desai on May 5 aggravated the situation further.

What led to a heated exchange of words between Desai, who is also the FPZAI president, and the other trustees, was his idea of keeping the latter out of the Federation's affairs. The main focus of the meeting, which was held at the Banaji Atash Behram at Charni Road on Sunday morning, was to distance the BBP trustees from the FPZAI.