T. Nagi Reddy Explained

Tarimela Nagi Reddy
Office:2nd Leader of the opposition
Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Governor:
Predecessor:Puchalapalli Sundarayya
Successor:Gouthu Latchanna
1Blankname:Chief Minister
1Namedata:
Term Start:1962
Term End:1967
Office1:Member of Legislative Assembly
Andhra Pradesh
Term1:1967 - 1972
Predecessor1:Ponnapati Antony Reddy
Successor1:Anantha Venkata Reddy
Constituency1:Anantapur
Term2:1962 - 1967
Predecessor2:Tarimela Ramachandra Reddy
Successor2:G. Sivaiah
Constituency2:Putturu
Office3:Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Term3:1957 - 1962
Predecessor3:Paidi Lakshmayya
Successor3:Osman Ali Khan
Constituency3:Anantapur
Office4:Madras Legislative Assembly[1]
Madras State
Term4:1951 - 1953
Predecessor4:Constituency Established
Successor4:Madras Assembly Divided
Constituency4:Anantapur[2]
Birth Date:1917 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Anantapuram, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Andhra Pradesh, India)
Death Place:Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Tarimela Nagi Reddy (11 February 1917 – 28 July 1976) was a communist politician from Andhra Pradesh, India. He was born in a wealthy family in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. He completed his schooling from the Rishi Valley School India, founded by Andhra philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. He would later study at Loyola College in Chennai and at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi. During his student days, he got involved with nationalism and Marxism. 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 Madras Legislative Assembly as a Communist Party of India candidate in 1951 from Anantapuram. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anantapuram in 1957. In 1962 he was elected to the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly as a Communist Party of India candidate from Puttur. In 1967 he was again elected to the assembly, now as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) candidate from Anantapuram. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, a two-time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the sixth President of India, 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 (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 (AICCCR). Reddy was however very critical of the left adventurist line of Charu Majumdar. Instead, he wanted to promote a mass line. Thus, Reddy and the APCCCR were expelled from the AICCCR.

In 1975, Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) 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 PresidentTarimala Krishna Reddy, Samithi PresidentTarimala Ramadoss Reddy, Communist leader.

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Notes and References

  1. "MADRAS LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 1952-1957 A REVIEW" (PDF). Legislative Assembly Department Madras-2. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADRAS". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 December 2018.