There has been some churning at AMMA, but Shweta Menon is not backing down. “I will not step down without proving my innocence,” she says, while also taking issue with the ad hoc panel put together in the wake of a tempestuous general body. To the president, this is a matter of bylaws, not who is more popular, and she is standing by the legitimacy of her executive.
Shweta Menon’s stance and why it matters
You can read between the lines of an emotional post on social media where Menon puts it out there: her quiet was for the good of AMMA, yet it was turned on her. She flatly denies any wrongdoing or leaving the body in lurch, and has made up her mind to see this through until her name is cleared. It is a pointed message to the membership. The one in charge is the committee she heads, not the ad hoc outfit, and that won’t change until we have new polls. That puts everyone in a position to pay attention.
Inside the 21 June 2026 showdown
According to Menon, a coterie of members came in with an agenda. Some 10 to 15 of them showed up to the AMMA Annual General Body with a pre-printed resolution in hand to unseat the executive. The document had its share of accusations, but for her, it comes down to process. Out of the 243 in the room, she says they didn’t get the two-thirds you need per the bylaws to make it stick.
The bylaw argument, not the headline drama
Menon has what she calls “clear, fact-based and legally sound” answers to every one of the charges. But the bottom line for her is that without that two-thirds, the resolution is void. Then there is the matter of the constitution. An elected committee that has put in its resignation has to hold the fort until a new one is in place, she says. It was done that way when Mohanlal’s committee left, and she sees no reason to do otherwise.
The flashpoint: an ad hoc committee
She can’t fathom how an ad hoc panel even came to be. “Where in the AMMA bylaws is there a system called an ad hoc committee?” is her question. In her view, there isn’t one, and to say you are running AMMA on that basis is to mislead your members. On July 2, 2026, the ad hoc side, with Ramesh Pisharody at the helm, put the blame for the impasse on Menon. When a no-confidence motion was tabled, her 17-member panel made the call to resign, though not before being told they had let the day-to-day and dispute settlement slide.
