Tarimela Nagi Reddy (11 February 1917 – 28 July 1976) was a communist politician from

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

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. He was born in a wealthy family in Anantapur district of

. He completed his schooling from the Rishi Valley School India, founded by

Andhra Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. He would later study at Loyola College in

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and at

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916 ...

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. During his student days, he got involved with nationalism and

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. His political activities got him jailed in 1940, 1941 and 1946. He revolted against his father who was a landlord and donated his land of over 1000 acres to landless labourers. Reddy was elected to the

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as a Communist Party of India candidate in 1951 from Anantaptur. He was elected to the

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from Anantapur in 1957. In 1962 he was elected to the

legislative assembly as a Communist Party of India candidate from Puttur. In 1967 he was again elected to the assembly, now as a

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(CPI(M)) candidate from Anantapur.

Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (; 19 May 1913 – 1 June 1996) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence ...

, a two-time

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and the sixth

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, was Nagi Reddy's brother-in-law. In 1968, T.N. Reddy broke with the CPI(M) and formed the

Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (APCCCR) was a leftist split from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The leader of the group was T. Nagi Reddy, who was a mem ...

(APCCCR). He succeeded in attracting a large part of the CPI(M) cadre to APCCCR. During a brief period APCCCR was part of

All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries was formed in 1967 as a splinter group of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), seeing its participation in the United Front government in West Bengal as a betrayal. Initiall ...

(AICCCR). Reddy was however very critical of the left adventurist line of Charu Majumdar. Instead, he wanted to promote a

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. Thus, Reddy and the APCCCR were expelled from the AICCCR. In 1975,

Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) Unity may refer to: Buildings * Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic building * Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper * Unity Buildings, Liverpool, UK; two buildings in England * Unity Chapel, Wyoming, Wisconsin, US; a ...

was formed through the merger of the APCCCR with three other smaller groups. T.N. Reddy worked as a leader of APCCCR until his death in 1976. His most famous work is ''India Mortgaged.'' Siblings: Tarimala Ranga Reddy, MLA and Samithi President Tarimala Krishna Reddy, Samithi President Tarimala Ramadoss Reddy, Communist leader.

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tarimela.com
* ttp://anantapur.gov.in/html/important-persons.htm Important Personsbr>Tarimela Nagi Reddy RememberedIndia Mortgaged
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