Cannot add column, name already exists

I am reading data from kafka topic and getting error:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot add column, name already exists: A.b.c
at org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:445)
at org.apache.iceberg.SchemaUpdate.internalAddColumn(SchemaUpdate.java:156)
at org.apache.iceberg.SchemaUpdate.addColumn(SchemaUpdate.java:107)
at org.apache.iceberg.UpdateSchema.addColumn(UpdateSchema.java:107)
at io.tabular.iceberg.connect.data.SchemaUtils.lambda$commitSchemaUpdates$4(SchemaUtils.java:127)
at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1541)
at io.tabular.iceberg.connect.data.SchemaUtils.commitSchemaUpdates(SchemaUtils.java:126)
at io.tabular.iceberg.connect.data.SchemaUtils.lambda$applySchemaUpdates$0(SchemaUtils.java:93)
at org.apache.iceberg.util.Tasks$Builder.runTaskWithRetry(Tasks.java:413)
at org.apache.iceberg.util.Tasks$Builder.runSingleThreaded(Tasks.java:219)
at org.apache.iceberg.util.Tasks$Builder.run(Tasks.java:203)
at org.apache.iceberg.util.Tasks$Builder.run(Tasks.java:196)
at io.tabular.iceberg.connect.data.SchemaUtils.applySchemaUpdates(SchemaUtils.java:93)
at io.tabular.iceberg.connect.data.IcebergWriter.convertToRow(IcebergWriter.java:98)
at io.tabular.iceberg.connect.data.IcebergWriter.write(IcebergWriter.java:68)
… 20 more

This is my sink properties file:

name=iceberg-sink-connector
topics=sample-topic
connector.class=io.tabular.iceberg.connect.IcebergSinkConnector
key.converter=org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
value.converter=org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
value.converter.schemas.enable=false
key.converter.schemas.enable=false
iceberg.tables.evolve-schema-enabled=true
iceberg.catalog=fake-bucket
iceberg.catalog.type=hadoop
iceberg.table.name=bronze.simple1
iceberg.catalog.warehouse=
iceberg.tables.auto-create-enabled=true
iceberg.tables.schema-evolution.enabled=true
iceberg.catalog.s3.path-style-access=false
iceberg.tables.evolve-schema-enabled=true
iceberg.tables.dynamic-enabled=false
iceberg.tables.schema-force-optional=false
iceberg.tables.schema-case-insensitive=false
iceberg.catalog.io-impl=org.apache.iceberg.aws.s3.S3FileIO
commit.timeout.ms=120000
iceberg.commit.timeout-ms=60000
iceberg.tables=bronze.simple1
log4j.logger.io.confluent.connect.s3=DEBUG
iceberg.control.commit.timeout-ms=200000
iceberg.control.commit.interval-ms=200
iceberg.connection.timeout.ms=300000
iceberg.read.timeout.ms=300000

I tried below configuration as well

iceberg.tables.write-props.write.operation=append
consumer.write.operation=append
write.operation=merge

It should ignore if column is already exist, however it is completely aborting the ingestion.