Lavu Balagangadhara Rao (3 August 1921 – 28 March 2003) was an Indian politician. He served as the Secretary of the

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

State Committee of the

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between May 1985 and November 1991.''People's Democracy''.
A LIFE OF SACRIFICES
' L.B.G. Rao was the son of Lavu Subrahmanyam. He studied at the

Andhra-Christian College The Andhra Christian College or A.C. College is one of the oldest colleges in India located in Guntur Andhra Pradesh. It started in 1885. AC College is part of the education enterprise of the Protestant churches. It admits intermediate, undergr ...

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. In 1938, during his student days, he joined the

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. In 1942 he became a CPI whole-timer. He went underground and was active in the Telangana armed struggle. He led various guerrilla squads, acting as the Amarabad party secretary. He got married in 1947, whilst being underground. In total he would go underground five times in his life, spanning a period of over eleven years. He was also jailed three times, and spent two and a half years in prison. L.B.G. Rao was fielded as the CPI candidate in a by-election for the Duggirala seat in the

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in June 1954. He finished in second place with 20,644 votes (42.5% of the votes in the constituency).Election Commission of India.
Bye-election results 1952-95
' After the split in the CPI, L.B.G. Rao sided with the CPI(M). He became a

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member of CPI(M). As of 1979 he served as the secretary of the State Agricultural Labourers Union. He also served as president of the

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.''People's Democracy''.
Comrade L B Gangadhara Rao
' L.B.G. Rao stood as the CPI(M) candidate for the Tenali seat in the

1980 Indian general election General elections were held in India on 3 and 6 January 1980 to elect the members of the 7th Lok Sabha. The Janata Party alliance came into power in the 1977 general elections amidst public anger with the Indian National Congress (INC) and the ...

. He finished in second place, with 144,457 votes (32.70%).Election Commission of India.
STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1980 TO THE SEVENTH LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)
'' In 1989 he was included in the

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of the party. Due to old age, he retired from the Polit Bureau in 1998.

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