Today is the 114th birth anniversary of Ravi Narayan Reddy, a communist leader from Telangana who was the 1st person to ENTER Parliament. He had won the Nalgonda LS seat by a margin higher than even Nehru's.A icon of the leader of the Telangana Armed Struggle.
The first Lok Sabha was constituted on the April 17, 1952 ,after India’s first General Election. Ravi Narayan Reddy won from the Nalgonda Lok Sabha seat with an even bigger majority than Nehru (309,162 vs 233,571).This was in the Hyd state, which all of Telangana was part of.
One of the tallest leaders of the Telangana Armed Struggle (1946-51) and twice Parliamentarian and State Legislator, Ravi Narayan Reddy was born on the June 4, 1908, in Bollepalli, Nalgonda district, which was then part of the Nizam’s Hyderabad state.One of the tallest leaders of the Telangana Armed Struggle (1946-51) and twice Parliamentarian and State Legislator, Ravi Narayan Reddy was born on the June 4, 1908, in Bollepalli, Nalgonda district, which was then part of the Nizam’s Hyderabad state.
Ravi Narayan Reddy joined the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930-34 while he was still a student and offered ‘Satyagraha’ at Kakinada (now in AP, which was then part of the British administered Madras Presidency) in 1938 as state general secretary of the Congress.Ravi Narayan Reddy joined the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930-34 while he was still a student and offered ‘Satyagraha’ at Kakinada (now in AP, which was then part of the British administered Madras Presidency) in 1938 as state general secretary of the Congress.
Ravi Narayan Reddy again represented the same constituency in the Third Lok Sabha during 1962-66. In between he was a Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislature during 1957-62.
