Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy is the former General Secretary of the

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(CPI) from 2012 to 2019. He was a member of the

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and 14th Lok Sabha of

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. He represented the

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constituency of

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. He was elected to serve as General Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI), on 31 March 2012 in the 21st party Congress. He has previously served as the Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, while being a member of the parliament. Born on 25 March 1942 at

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, he was educated in the Municipal High School and Coles memorial High school in Kurnool. He did his BA in History from Osmania College, Kurnool, in 1964 and LLB from Osmania University Law College in Hyderabad in the year 1967. When he was 15, he became a crucial figure in an agitation seeking blackboards, chalk and books for his school in

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. The movement spread and schools across

started raising similar demands. Reddy was later elected twice from the

parliamentary constituency. Leader of several mass struggles, and widely admired within the party and outside.

External links

Home Page on the Parliament of India's Website

CPI Khammam
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References

1942 births Living people Communist Party of India politicians from Telangana People from Mahbubnagar district India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 2004–2009 Lok Sabha members from Telangana People from Nalgonda district {{AndhraPradesh-politician-stub