Meduri Nageswara Rao (31 March 1910 – 13 January 1998) was an Indian independence activist, politician and Member of Parliament.

Life sketch

He was born to Shri Venkatrayadu in Etukur,

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 ...

on 31 March 1910. He was educated at A.E.L.M. High School. He married Smt. Musalamma in 1930. They had four children; two sons and two daughters. He left studies and participated in

Salt Satyagraha The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four day march lasted from 12 March to 6 April 1930 as a di ...

in 1930. He was jailed in Vellore and Alipur. He was member of Pradesh Congress Committee between 1936 and 1971 and Secretary of Guntur District Congress Committee for 10 years between 1937 and 1947. He was Chairman of Guntur Zilla Parishad for three terms between 1959 and 1970. He was member of

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between 1951 and 1952. He was elected as member of

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in 1946 and

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1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

and 1956. He was elected to the

5th Lok Sabha List of Members of the 5th Lok Sabha, ( 15 March 1971 — 18 January 1977) elected February–March 1971.The term of the House was extended two times by one year at a time. However, the House was dissolved after having been in existence for a ...

from

Machilipatnam Machilipatnam (), also known as Masulipatnam and Bandar, is a city in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Krishna district. It is also the Tehsil, mandal he ...

constituency in 1971 as a member of

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. He was again elected to the

6th Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. The 6th Lok Sabha, which ran from 23 March 1977 to 22 August 1979 was elected in February and March 1977. 11 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 6t ...

and

7th Lok Sabha List of Members of the 7th Lok Sabha, (18 January 1980 – 31 December 1984) elected December 1979 – January 1980. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India nine sitting members from Rajya Sabha were el ...

from

Tenali Tenali is a city in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Tenali mandal and Tenali revenue division. The city is renowned for art, culture, drama and hence, it is called ''Andhra ...

constituency in 1977 and 1980 respectively. He was felicitated and Sahasra purna chandrodayam celebrated in 1994 under the chairmanship of

Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy (16 August 1920 – 27 September 2001) served as the chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1983 and then from 1992 to 1994. Reddy was a member of the Indian National Congress and was elected t ...

.Nageswara Rao Meduri, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part I, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 303. He died on 13 January 1998.

References

External links

Biodata of M. Nageswara Rao at Lok Sabha website.
Indian independence activists from Andhra Pradesh Telugu politicians India MPs 1971–1977 India MPs 1977–1979 India MPs 1980–1984 1910 births 1998 deaths Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh district councillors Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh People from Guntur district {{AndhraPradesh-INC-politician-stub