Nanduri Prasada Rao who was popularly known as NPR was a famous freedom fighter who ceaselessly worked to promote for the communist cause in Andhra Pradesh and he was one of the eminent figures who organized the communist movement in India. He came from an upwardly mobile family but he chose to relinquish material comforts and he led an ascetic life as a comrade. He died on November 29, 2001.