Missula Suryanarayana Murti (4 February 1911 – August 1973) was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament.

Early life

Murti was born to Shri Venkanna at Kondakarla in Brahmin family. He married on 29 May 1929. They had 6 children, 4 sons and 2 daughters.

Career

Murthi graduated with a B.SC. in Chemistry and researched activated carbon from agricultural refuse and sugar technology while working in the sugar plant located near

Anakapalli Anakapalli is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Anakapalli district. The municipality was merged with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. It has the second largest jaggery market of the coun ...

. He was a member of Pradesh Congress Committee after 1945. He was president of Visakhapatnam District Congress Committee from 1942 to 1946 and from 1953 to 1957. He was elected to the

2nd Lok Sabha The Second Lok Sabha (5 April 1957 – 31 March 1962) was elected after the 1957 Indian general election. The 2nd Lok Sabha lasted its full tenure of five years till 1962. 15 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 2nd Lok Sabha after ...

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Golugonda Golugonda is a village and a Mandal in Anakapalli district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. This village is famous for availability of semi-precious stones. Special police squads have been formed to prevent illegal quarry A qu ...

Constituency in 1957 and

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4th Lok Sabha List of Members of the 4th Lok Sabha (4 March 1967 – 27 December 1970), elected February–March 1967. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India.13 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 4th ...

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constituency in 1962 and 1967 respectively as a member of

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 ...

. Though he was elected repeatedly, lifelong he lived in a hut in kondakarla. He sold most of his inheritance for the sake to serve the people residing in his constituency during the tenure he is in office. Before entering into politics, he was the President of Kondakarla, Atchutapuaram Mandal. He established development techniques including

Harijan Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a ...

(outcaste) development and a cooperative society in his Kondakarla for educating deprived students. Some of his Social activities are Organising co-operative Societies, Harijan uplift and rural welfare.

External links

Biodata of M. S. Murti at Lok Sabha website.

Some Photographs of M. S. Murthy at Wikimapia.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murti, Missula Suryanarayana Telugu politicians India MPs 1957–1962 India MPs 1962–1967 India MPs 1967–1970 1911 births 1973 deaths Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh People from Visakhapatnam district