The Status of the Chicago Community Arbitration for TANA Unity

The TANA community is at a critical juncture in TANA’s history – the leadership is divided.  Both sides are pulling TANA in diametrically opposite directions without realizing it would be too late before it reaches a critical yield stress beyond the point of no return.  These are tough times for TANA.  At times like these, The Chicago community came forward and formed an Arbitration committee to resolve the issues among the leadership. 

After extensive discussions / deliberations among the Chicago Telugu Community, the community proposed unanimously the following initiative.   The main objective of this initiative is three fold: i) reestablish united TANA, ii) resolve the current impasse at TANA’s leadership, and (iii) get back to what matters – preserve and promote our Telugu heritage, culture and language.  To resolve the impasse, the following actions have to be taken by appropriate parties as suggested by the community:

(i)   Reestablish the TANA’s Leadership – Convene the governing body (GB) of TANA to reaffirm each other, i.e., reinstate the duly elected President of TANA and the duly elected Executive Committee members.
(ii)  Law Suit Resolution:  The plaintiffs of lawsuit must drop the on going lawsuit against TANA leadership.  In return, the governing body (GB) needs to make every reasonable effort to streamline the election process and the verification of member registrations. 
(iii) The unified 17th TANA Conference will be conducted by TANA as one unified team.  This will show case our TANA members how well the leadership managed the situation and came out of the crisis.
 
Contact:  Kasi Paturi, PR committee, (312) 226-6582