Makineni Basavapunnaiah (

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: మాకినేని బసవపున్నయ్య; 14 December 1914 – 12 April 1992) was an Indian Communist leader who was a member of

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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

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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

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. Within the

(CPI), he began working as a district level activist in

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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

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. 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 {{AndhraPradesh-politician-stub