An Appeal from a Community Member

Pasted below is a comment received from one Mr. M O Simon (we at British Kna are clueless about his identity) on a previous post, A Letter to UKKCA President.

It is felt that this deserves serious attention of the members and leaders of our Community.  As a comment, this may go unnoticed.  Hence it is posted here.  We appreciate your suggestions, Mr. Simon.  Let us have a dialogue and discussion; not a quarrel on such issues 

- Administrator, British Kna

Dear all at MKCA & UKKCA.

With love and due respect to all, let me mention a few things in the context of the above letter (from MKCA to UKKCA) and the forthcoming UKKCA elections. 


We the knanaya community members, like all other immigrants,are in UK in search of a better life for us and our children. We are struggling day & night to achieve this primary objective. Here we are living in the midst of various problems like different cultures, nationalities, job insecurities and many unexpected situations. To take some solace from these day to day problems, we formed our knanaya associations with a spirit of love. Let us make our UKKCA units a medium for spreading love & fraternity and no cause for bitterness.

The recent developments in the Manchester unit have pained all the knanaya community members across the UK. It has started with the unit election. Without blaming anyone in particular, I must say all the then unit office bearers have failed in their duty to conduct the proceedings in the spirit of love and togetherness. It could have been solved without making further damage to the community spirit, if our spiritual adviser had acted timely instead of going to online newspaper belatedly. Now the basic principles of love & togetherness of the association have been put on stake by the MKCA leadership. Rules & laws are made for the well being of the people to live more peacefully & happily. Any rule which is against this principle can be changed at anytime but the happiness of the people should be paramount.

The present problem of the MKCA has now become a problem for the UKKCA in total. By disintegration of members by resignations and by forming of separate units the original MKCA is in total disarray. Due to the above situations the UKKCA leadership and the national council may be compelled to take unpleasant decisions which may not be good in the best interest of the community. I, therefore, appeal to the MKCA leaders to save the association from further embarrassment by voluntarily staying away from the forthcoming UKKCA election process ie; from voting and contesting as well. This will not make you small in any way but by doing this you can use this opportunity as a minimum damage control and can stop further escalation of rift. The new national council will surely help to bring back the love & togetherness once again to the members of Manchester area.

M O Simon.