| Ravi Narayana Reddy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 June 1908 Bollepalli, Bhongir, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Died | 7 Sept. 1991 Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Political movement | Indian independence movement, Telengana Rebellion |
Shri. Ravi Narayana Reddy, (Telugu రావి నారాయణ రెడ్డి), (born 5 June 1908, Bollepally, Bhongir, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh – died 7 Sept. 1991), was a founding member of the Communist Party of India. He was a leader in the Telengana Rebellion against the rule of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII. Reddy was also a philanthropist, social reformer,[1] and parliamentarian.
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Ravi Narayana Reddy took a leading role in the 1946-1951 Telengana Rebellion, in which the Communist Party of India formed an alliance with Andhra Mahasabha, a subsidiary party of the Indian National Congress, both supporting a peasant rebellion. Greivances against the rule of Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, the sovereign, (Nizam), of the state and dynasty of Hyderabad, led to an uprising and violent struggle. A truce was agreed between the Nizam and the Communists in November 1947, whereby a previous ban on the Communist Party of India was lifted., he was a great telangana leader ignored by historians.
In the 1952 Indian general election, Reddy stood for the People's Democratic Front, (a pseudonym for the banned Communist Party of India), and polled more votes than Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1994, a protest over water supplies at Bhongir, led by Reddy under the auspices of the Jalasadhana Samithi, led to the filing of 485 nominations for the Nalgonda parliamentary seat, requiring officials to produce the election's longest ballot paper.
An auditorium, the Ravi Narayana Reddy Memorial Auditorium Complex at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad, was built and named in his memory by the Telangana Martyrs' Memorial Trust.[1]
In 2006, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, presented the Ravi Narayana Reddy memorial national foundation award to A.B. Bardhan, Communist Party of India general secretary.[2]