Dear TANA Governing Board members:
We are very unhappy with the current state of affairs in our beloved organization.
TANA being a non-profit, tax-exempt community organization should be open and transparent. Instead the organization is controlled in a secretive fashion with a few ring leaders keeping the plans and information hidden. TANA was not responsive to the comments and concerns of its membership. This cavalier attitude led a few concerned members to take TANA to court to get access to membership records and financial information that was supposed to be open and readily available. Initially you did not even inform the membership about this lawsuit and later you tried to mislead them by giving erroneous information.
Some TANA leaders are using the organization to satisfy their selfish personal and political objectives. TANA is engaged in internal power skirmishes and mismanagement of resources. Your action to move the 2009 TANA Conference from Florida to Chicago and the resulting $175,000 penalty perplexed and confused the Telugu community in North America questioning your motives. Failed attempts by TANA well wishers to unify our community by holding one national conference confirmed the disingenuous efforts of the power brokers. You have no respect for common sense, logic, or tradition. People no longer have any trust or confidence in the TANA leadership.
We are saddened and angered by your actions that are leading to the disqualification of nearly 10,000 duly enrolled TANA members with malice and under the guise of membership verification. TANA managed and manipulated the membership data and online enrollment process to the advantage of some current members of the Governing Board. TANA has no right to deny the membership of anyone that followed the procedure spelled out at the time of their application. You have to follow the Bylaws and resolutions in place and it is highly improper to add questionable requirements later. Any irregularities must be resolved by an independent group and not by people with an interest in the upcoming elections. In your judgment everyone that applied for their parents or children and anyone that moved to a different address is a suspect. Your actions have angered the new members and with disgust they chose not to send in unnecessary documents demanded by TANA. Telugu community clearly labeled your unjustified verification efforts as grossly unfair. You have deposited their membership fees in your operating account and decided to question their status a year later. You have provided no services to them. You ruined the honor and prestige of TANA.
You have not required office bearers in TANA to avoid conflicts of interest. Leaders who should know better kept quiet during the internal fights and public clashes instead of stepping in and straightening the situation. You collectively failed in your fiduciary duty to protect the interests of the general membership of the organization.
You are closing nominations even before you have a certified membership list. Conducting elections under these unjust and disgraceful conditions is a big joke. TANA has become a laughing stock in the Indian community. As a result TANA has become irrelevant to the Telugu community in North America. After serving this organization for so long it hurts us to see it go down the drain in this fashion.
So we along with all our friends in the Telugu community have decided to not contest in the upcoming, meaningless TANA elections.
Yours Truly,
Concerned Members of TANA:
Mallikharjunarao Chalasani
Ranakumar Nadella
Veeraiah Chundu
Madhu Korrapati
Baburao Doddapaneni
Krishna Polavarapu
Yugandhararao Vallabhaneni
Haranath Doddapaneni
Sateesh Dasari
Ramana Moorty Gulivindala
Raja Karanam
Baburao Yalamanchili
Srinivas Koneru
Srinivasarao Kodali
Surya Vattikuti
Siva Muthiki
Ramachandar Vanam
Sreedhar Appasani
Siva Choudary Babu Chennupati
Ramakrishna Putumbaka
Mahesh Bikkina
Venkat Maddineni
Ayyanrao Nannapaneni
Poorna Movva
Sekhar Gollapalli
Mallikarjunarao Yalamanchili
Sarath Pinnamaneni
Kishore Paruchuri
Karunakar Paturi
Giri Kalluri
Rangarao Panguluri
Vijay Mallampalli
Ravi Makam
Neil Kolli
Narendra Ganguri
Venkatesh Alapati
Nagu Potla
Subbarao Nelakuditi
Syam Gaddam
Hari Konka
Seshu Veeramachaneni
Sandeep Yalamachi
Venu Boppana
Jagadish Chaparala
Narasimha Marthambadi
Subrahmanyeswara Prasad Nimmagadda
Srinivasa Appaji Madadapu
Srinivasa Raja Chennupati
Chandra Pendyala
Sudhakar Karlapudi
Sesha Modukuru
Sridhar Chalasani
Manoj Paladugu
Ravi Chukkapalli
Sharat Mandava
Vijay Jonnalagadda
Brahmaji Gazzarapu
Ravi Gavirineni
Sreenivas Achanta
Ravi Gorrepati
Vijay Ganne
Rambabu Chundru
Narendra Ramineni
Roopendra Ramineni
Ajay Kumar Sunkara
Krishna Murali Kalagara
Pavan Kumar Thotakura
Amarendra P Duggirala
Sriram C Koppaka
Bhimeswararao Ramineni
Phanendra Ramineni
Anil K Sunkara
Syam C Thotakura
Vasu Vallabhaneni
Vijay Kumar Venigalla
Shyam K Kilaru
Ram B Achanta
Sridhar Kesani
Sreedhar Parvathaneni
Ramanaidu Suryadevara
Suneel Ravi
Srinivasa Mudunuri
Yuvakumar Doddipalli
Vikram Bojjam
Rajesh Chintapalli
Rajsekhar Ogirala
Anisha Vemulapalli
Sougandh Kalluri
Bharath Paladugu
Ravi Kavuri
Srinivasareddy Arikatla
Suman Vasireddy
Shiva Annamneni
Naga Kolli
Aravind Maddineni
Aravind Paruchuri
Dilip Vadlamudi
Srinivas Chalasani
Nagachand Ganapaneni
Suresh Jasti
Raj Pulikal
Krishns Madduri
Ramu Yeleti & other life members
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