Alluri Satyanarayana Raju was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He belonged to
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
. He was a legislator and worked as a minister.
Satyanarayana Raju was one of the signatories to the
Gentlemen's agreement of Andhra Pradesh (1956)
The Gentlemen's agreement of Andhra Pradesh was signed between Telangana and Andhra leaders before the formation of the state of Andhra Pradesh of India on 20 February 1956. The agreement provided safeguards with the purpose of preventing discrim ...
, made for the merger of
Andhra State
Andhra State (IAST: ; ) was a Administrative divisions of India#States and union territories, state in India created in 1953 from the Telugu language, Telugu-speaking northern List of districts in India, districts of Madras State. The state was ...
with
Hyderabad State (1948–56)
Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...
.
Satyanarayana Raju was a state minister in the Andhra Pradesh cabinet during the leadership of
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (; 19 May 1913 – 1 June 1996) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence ...
and
Damodaram Sanjeevaiah.
References
External links
A blog on his Life
Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh
Telugu politicians
Indian independence activists from Andhra Pradesh
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