India, Aug. 10 -- In a significant development within the Cine and TV Artistes Association (CINTAA), 11 members of its 21-member Executive Committee have resigned from their respective positions, amid allegations of prolonged tensions over the functioning of the association and calls for fresh elections. They alleged that the functioning of the association had increasingly become concentrated around CINTAA President Poonam Dhillon and Senior Vice President Padmini Kolhapure, along with a section of other Executive Committee members.

General Secretary Upasana Singh says the differences had been building for over two years, with the committee increasingly divided over how the association should function. "This has been going on for the pas...