The recent developments in the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) disturbed the Telugu people in the US. Removal of TANA president, Kakarala Prabhakara Chowdary, troubled Telugu community as such an action was never taken in the long history of TANA. TANA formulated to serve the Telugu culture but the current committee has miserably failed to achieve the objectives of the organization. The regular weekend social gatherings and other community gatherings in Washington metro area are vigorously discussing about the divisions in TANA and nobody is happy of political atmosphere entered into TANA. Senior members of the community such as Jakkampudi Subbarayudu who organized TANA conference in 1983 in Washington, DC, and others are dismayed with expulsion of the president from the august body.
More than 50 active life members of the TANA of Washington, DC metro area gathered in Mayuri restaurant in Fairfax, Virginia on September 28 to discuss the unfortunate events. Active TANA members of the community Harnath Reddy Chadive, Annamreddy Ramesh, Vellanki Shekar, Nagender Madavaram, Ramakanth Koya, Pradeep Gourineni, Vijay Gudiseva, Mikkilineni Srinivas, Ravuri Sridar, Pradeep Nugur, Srinvas Tunuguntla, Mikkilineni Srinivas and others participated in the discussion. TANA was represented by TANA trustees Mulpuri Venkat Rao and Dr. Yadla Hemaprasad.
The gathering revealed its unhappiness for unlawful actions of the TANA executive committee. Vijay Gudiseva proposed that TANA executive committee failed in keeping the unity among themselves. The committee should resolve the differences among office bearers within 4 weeks otherwise all the office bearers should resign for their positions and seek fresh mandate from the members of the TANA. Ramakanth Koya proposed that removal of president is unethical and TANA executive committee should not have removed the president even though the committee does not have authority of removing the president. The attendees overwhelmingly supported with 90 percent majority for these two resolutions. The gathering opined that committee members are showing more interest in participating in Indian politics than serving the community in the US. The attendees resolved that the TANA should explain the reasons for taking unprecedented actions to the community.
