B. Satya Narayan Reddy (21 August 1927 – 6 October 2012) was a freedom fighter, Socialist politician and a former

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and

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. Reddy died at the age of 85 on 6 October 2012 in Hyderabad.

Early life

Reddy belonged to an agricultural family from Annaram village

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in the Mehboobnagar district of

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. He was educated at the

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and graduated in law from the

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Freedom Fighter

Reddy, then only 14, participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and was arrested for taking out a students' procession protesting Gandhi's arrest. He later participated in the Hyderabad Peoples' Movement in 1947 where he organised a satyagraha movement against the Nizam's Rule for which he was arrested and imprisoned at the Chanchalguda Jail for 6 months. During his time in prison he edited the ''Payam-e-Nav'', a weekly he circulated among his prison mates.

Political career

Inspired by Acharya Narendra Dev, Jaiprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, Reddy became a part of the

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. He was a participant in Vinobha Bhave's Bhoodan Movement. Staying out of the Congress fold, he was variously associated with the

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, the

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

and the

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. As a nominee of the Janata Party he was elected to the

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in 1978. In 1983 he joined the

Telugu Desam Party The Telugu Desam Party (; TDP) is an Indian regional political party operating in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana at the state and central level. Since its founding by N. T. Rama Rao (often referred to as NTR) on 29 March 1982, the party has fo ...

and was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha as its nominee in 1984.

Gubernatorial Tenures

Reddy served as the Governor of

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from 12 February 1990 to 25 May 1993 and as the Governor of Odisha from 1 June 1993 to 17 June 1995. He also held additional charge of the Governor of West Bengal between 13 July 1993 and 14 August 1993. He was the Governor of Uttar Pradesh when the Babri Masjid was demolished.

References

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