Makineni Basavapunnaiah (
Telugu
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: మాకినేని బసవపున్నయ్య; 14 December 1914 – 12 April 1992) was an Indian Communist leader who was a member of
Politburo
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Names
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of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)). He was also the editor of the central organ of CPI (M), ''People's Democracy'' magazine.
[Basavapunnaiah Makineni, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part I, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 375.] He was a member of the
Rajya Sabha for 14 years from 3 April 1952 to 2 April 1966.
Biography
He was born to Shri Venkatappaiah in Toorpupalem village near Repalle in
Guntur district
Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the largest city of the district in terms of area and with a po ...
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Andhra Pradesh. He studied in his village, Repalle and Machilipatnam. He has graduated from Andhra Christian College, Guntur in 1936.
Makineni Basavapunnaiah was influenced by the upsurge in the
Indian Independence Movement in the early 1930s. He grew increasingly disillusioned by the policies of the then
Congress leadership. In 1934 he joined the
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925.
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Within the
Communist Party of India
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(CPI), he began working as a district level activist in
Guntur
Guntur () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Guntur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Guntur is spread across 168.49 km square and is the third-largest city in the state. It is situated to the west of the Ba ...
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Andhra Pradesh. In 1943 he was elected to the
Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee of the CPI and its secretariat. He participated in the
Telangana Rebellion. At the Second Congress of the CPI in 1948, he was elected to the Central Committee of the party. In June 1950, was inducted into the party
politburo
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Names
The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...
. He was one among the four member Indian Communist delegation who met
Joseph Stalin clandestinely in 1950 to receive his advice on whether to continue the
Telangana Rebellion or not.
In 1957, he represented the CPI at the international conference of communist parties in Moscow,
USSR.
When the
CPI was divided into two in 1964, he became a politburo member of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist), the splinter group of the Communist Party of India.
He died in New Delhi in 1992.
References
External links
Biodata of Basavapunnaiah Makineni at Rajya Sabha website.
1914 births
1992 deaths
People from Guntur district
Telugu politicians
Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Andhra Pradesh
Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh
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