Reddy served thrice as President of the Indian National Congress at its Bangalore, Bhavnagar and Patna sessions during 1960 to 1962. At the Congress session at Goa in 1962, Reddy's speech stating India's determination to end the Chinese occupation of Indian territory and the irrevocable nature of the liberation of Goa was enthusiastically received by attendees. He was thrice member of the Rajya Sabha. From June 1964, Reddy was Union Minister of Steel and Mines in the Lal Bahadur Shastri government. He also served as Union Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, Shipping and Tourism from January 1966 to March 1967 in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet.
Congress President (1960–62) and Union Minister (1964–67)
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Congress President (1960–62) and Union Minister (1964–67)
President of the Indian National Congress, Union Minister of Steel and Mines, Union Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, Shipping and Tourism, speaker of the Lok Sabha, etc. He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress representative,became secretary of the Congress' legislature party;  was also a Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly from Madras. Elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress representative, Reddy became secretary of the Congress' legislature party. The first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister.
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In response to Jayaprakash Narayan's call for a Total Revolution, Reddy emerged from his political exile in 1975. In January 1977, he was made a member of the Committee of the Janata Party and in March, he fought the General Election from the Nandyal (Lok Sabha constituency) in Andhra Pradesh as a Janata Party candidate. He was the only non-Congress candidate to be elected from Andhra Pradesh. The Congress Party led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was defeated, ending 30 years of Congress rule in India and a five party coalition with Morarji Desai as its leader came to power.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Return to active politics (1975–82)
He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress party representative. Reddy became the deputy chief minister of Andhra State in 1953 and the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. He was a union cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi from 1964 to 1967 and Lok Sabha Speaker from 1967 to 1969. He later retired from active politics but returned in 1975, responding to Jayaprakash Narayan's call for "Total Revolution" against the Indira Gandhi Government. Elected to Parliament in 1977 as a candidate of the Janata Party, Reddy was unanimously elected Speaker of the Sixth Lok Sabha and three months later was elected unopposed as President of India.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Introduction
In the final tally, Giri had votes against the quota of votes required to be elected president and Reddy had votes. The election led to much discord within the Congress Party and culminated in the historic split of 1969 and the subsequent rise of Indira Gandhi in Indian politics. Subsequently, Reddy, who had resigned as Speaker of the Lok Sabha to contest the election, retired from active politics and moved back to Anantapur where he took to farming.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Presidential election of 1969
Elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946 as a Congress representative, Reddy became secretary of the Congress' legislature party. He was also a Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly from Madras. From April 1949 to April 1951, he was the Minister for Prohibition, Housing and Forests of the Madras State. Reddy lost the 1951 election to the Madras Legislative Assembly to the Communist leader Tarimela Nagi Reddy.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Political career
Reddy was unanimously elected Speaker of the Sixth Lok Sabha on 26 March 1977. However he resigned a few months later to contest in the presidential elections of July 1977. Reddy's second term as Speaker lasted three months and 17 days and remains till date the shortest tenure for anyone to have held that post.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Return to active politics (1975–82)
Reddy served thrice as President of the Indian National Congress at its Bangalore, Bhavnagar and Patna sessions during 1960 to 1962. At the Congress session at Goa in 1962, Reddy's speech stating India's determination to end the Chinese occupation of Indian territory and the irrevocable nature of the liberation of Goa was enthusiastically received by attendees. He was thrice member of the Rajya Sabha. From June 1964, Reddy was Union Minister of Steel and Mines in the Lal Bahadur Shastri government. He also served as Union Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, Shipping and Tourism from January 1966 to March 1967 in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Congress President (1960–62) and Union Minister (1964–67)
Reddy joined the Indian struggle for independence from the British Raj following Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Anantapur in July 1929 and dropped out of college in 1931. He was closely associated with the Youth League and participated in a student satyagraha. In 1938, Reddy was elected Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Provincial Congress Committee, an office he held for ten years. During the Quit India Movement, he was imprisoned and was mostly in jail between 1940 and 1945. Released in March 1942, he was arrested again in August and sent to the Amraoti jail where he served time with activists T Prakasam, S.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Role in the Indian independence movement
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (19 May 1913 – 1 June 1996) was the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the Indian independence movement, he went on to hold several key offices in independent India—as the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister—before becoming the youngest-ever Indian president. Born in present-day Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, Reddy completed his schooling at Adayar and joined the Government Arts College at Anantapur. He quit to become an Indian independence activist and was jailed for participating in the Quit India Movement.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Introduction
He was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi and served as his secretary, when in Yerwada prison in 1932. After independence, he left Congress in 1947 and with some other ex-congressman joined the Peasants and Workers Party of India, of which he was one of founder member. In 1961 he again joined Congress with his other PWP colleagues like Keshavrao Jedhe, Shankarrao More. He was given ticket and was elected as a member of 3rd Lok Sabha from Nanded from 1962–67 and as a member of the 4th Lok Sabha from Baramati as a Congress candidate. He was at times vocal opponent of Yashwantrao Chavan in many matters of policies and decisions for which in 1971 elections he was denied election ticket.
Tulsidas Jadhav | Political life
During his term as Speaker a defamation suit filed against him by an MP resulted in the Supreme Court's ruling that parliamentarians had complete freedom of speech in the House and that the courts had no say in such matters. Reddy described his role as being the 'watchman of the Parliament'. He however had several hostile encounters with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the House that proved costly when he became, two years later, the Congress Party's nominee to succeed Zakir Hussain as president.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1967–69)
In 1956 he was the State Congress General Secretary. He was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly in 1957, 1962, 1967 and 1972 from Dornakal constituency in Warangal district. In 1972 he won unopposed. In 1960 he was inducted as the Minister of Food, Agriculture, labour, debt reform in Damodaram Sanjivayya’s cabinet. In 1962 he was inducted as the Minister for Revenue, Land Reforms in Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy’s cabinet. He was appointed Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Committee on 27 April 1964. From 1964 to 1967 he continued in Kasu Brahmananda Reddy’s cabinet as Minister for Revenue and Land Reforms.
Nukala Ramachandra Reddy | Political career
He entered politics after independence of India and joined Indian National Congress. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly of Gujarat for Wankaner for the years 1962-67 and 1967-71. Later he became Member of Parliament or Lok Sabha from Surendranagar for years 1980-1989. He also served as the Union Deputy Minister for Ecology and the Environment 1982-1984.
Digvijaysinhji Jhala | Political career
He took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) and all later Congress movements. He soon became prominent in U.P. politics. He became a member of the U.P. Congress working committee and also the Secretary of Provincial Congress Committee. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the United Provinces. He was appointed a Parliamentary Secretary in the U.P. Government 1937 and remained in office till the resignation of the Ministry in 1939. He was a member of the All India Congress Committee for a long time. He was a minister with cabinet rank in charge of the Ministry of Rehabilitation under Nehru following the constitution of the First Lok Sabha in 1952.
Ajit Prasad Jain | Political career
His last position in government was as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the Janata Party government of 1977–1979, Disillusioned with the Janata party he formed his own party, the Congress (J). He remained a member of Parliament till his death in 1986, after over forty years as a parliamentarian. He was elected from Sasaram parliament constituency in Bihar. His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1936 to 1986 is a world record.
Jagjivan Ram | Parliamentary career
In 1969, following President Zakir Hussain's death, the Congress party nominated Reddy, a member of its Syndicate faction, as candidate for president although Prime Minister Indira Gandhi opposed him. She was forced to accept Reddy as the Congress party's official candidate and feared his election would allow the Syndicate to expel her from office. She asked Congress legislators to "vote according to their conscience" rather than blindly toe the Party line, in effect giving a call to support the independent candidate V V Giri. In a closely fought election held on 16 August 1969, V V Giri emerged victorious, winning 48.01 per cent of the first preference votes and subsequently getting a majority on counting the second preference votes.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Presidential election of 1969
He subsequently held the portfolio of Union Minister for Food and Agriculture in Mr Nehru's cabinet from December 1954 to August 1959. He became President of the U.P. Congress Committee in May 1961. When Rafi Ahmed Kidwai formed the All India Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party owing to ideological differences with the then Congress president Purushottam Das Tandon, Jain handed in his resignation to Nehru in solidarity with Kidwai. Nehru however turned it down. He succeeded V V Giri as the third governor of Kerala serving from 2 April 1965 to 6 February 1966 during which time the state remained under President's rule.
Ajit Prasad Jain | Political career
He resigned from his official position in 1952 to embark on Parliamentary career by contesting the first general election of independent India from Tellicherry constituency, and winning with a thumping majority. During his tenure in the Lok Sabha (1956), he was part of a Parliamentary delegation to China when Prime Minister Zhou Enlai was in power.
Nettur P. Damodaran | Early years and the freedom struggle
Rao was an active freedom fighter during the Indian Independence movement and joined full-time politics after independence as a member of the Indian National Congress. He served as an elected representative for Andhra Pradesh state assembly from 1957 to 1977. He served in various ministerial positions in Andhra government from 1962 to 1973. He became the Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1971 and implemented land reforms and land ceiling acts strictly. He secured reservation for lower castes in politics during his tenure. President's rule had to be imposed to counter the Jai Andhra movement during his tenure. He supported Indira Gandhi in formation of New Congress party in 1969 by splitting the Indian National Congress.
P. V. Narasimha Rao | Political career
He was member of the Constituent assembly that drafted India's constitution. Ram also served in the interim national government of 1946. Later, he held several ministerial posts in Nehru's Cabinet – Communications (1952–56), Transport and Railways (1956–62), and Transport and Communications (1962–63). In Indira Gandhi's government, he worked as minister for Labour, Employment, and Rehabilitation (1966–67), and Union Minister for Food and Agriculture (1967–70), where he is best remembered for having successfully led the Green Revolution during his tenure. When the Congress Party split in 1969, Jagjivan Ram joined the camp led by Indira Gandhi, and became the president of that faction of Congress.
Jagjivan Ram | Parliamentary career
The presidential election of 1977 was necessitated by the death in office of the incumbent Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Although Prime Minister Morarji Desai wanted to nominate danseuse Rukmini Devi Arundale for the post, she turned down the offer. Reddy was elected unopposed, the only President to be elected thus, after being unanimously supported by all political parties including the opposition Congress party. At 64, he became the youngest ever person to be elected President of India. He was also the only serious presidential candidate to have contested twice – in 1969 against V V Giri and in 1977. 37 candidates had filed their nominations for the presidency of whom 36 were rejected by the returning officer.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Presidential election of 1977
The Nagarjuna Sagar and Srisailam multipurpose river valley projects were initiated during his tenure. The Government of Andhra Pradesh later renamed the Srisailam project to Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Sagar in his honour. The Congress governments under Reddy placed emphasis on rural development, agriculture and allied sectors. The shift towards industrialisation remained limited and was largely driven by the central government's investments in large public sector enterprises in the state. Reddy's first term as Chief Minister ended in 1960 after he resigned on being elected President of the Indian National Congress. In 1964, he resigned voluntarily following unfavourable observations made against the Government of Andhra Pradesh by the Supreme Court in the Bus Routes Nationalisation case.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (1956–60, 1962–64)
Sinha entered active politics in early 1930s. He joined Congress party but soon moved to Socialist Party (India) followed by Congress Socialist Party. By 1951, Sinha was back with Congress party. He held several key party and parliamentary positions in the coming years. Sinha was Member of Parliament, twice from the same constituency. Sinha convened several conferences; viz "Northern India Freedom Fighters Conference", "National Conference on Freedom Fighters", "Socialism", "Democracy", "Non-alignment and National Integration" etc.
Ram Krishna Sinha | Post independence
Reddy joined active politics in 1978 and won the Pulivendula constituency same year and became Minister of State for Rural Development (1980–82), and later shifted to Excise Minister (1982) and Education Minister (1982–83). He continued to retain the same constituency in 1983 and 1985, even when Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao swept the power and the party fared badly in the latter, which saw Indira Gandhi making him State president of the party. He even continued the winning streak for Kadapa constituency for four terms in 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Lok Sabha. His return to state politics saw him winning 1999 Assembly elections from same Pulivendula constituency during which he served as Leader of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh State Assembly (1999–2004), but his subsequent winning in 2004 Assembly elections saw him sworn in as 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh serving full-term.
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy | Political career
Later, he joined the Congress and has remained in it for 25 years. He lost the 1983 elections and won the 1985, 1989 and 1999 elections. He lost in 1994 to the TDP candidate. During his Congress period he served as Home Minister in Shri Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy's cabinet and as a Transport Minister in Shri Nedurumalli Janardhan Reddy's cabinet. He quit Congress party and joined Telugu Desam Party. Later TDP sent him to Rajya Sabha as a Member of the Parliament. After joining TDP he lost parliament Loksabha elections three times. He now joined Telugu Desham Party. His complaint as TDP MP to the Indian Defense minister A.K.Anthony ordered a probe on the murkiness of multi-billion French Rafale aircraft deal.
M. V. Mysura Reddy | Introduction
Yeshwantrao came in for criticism at the time of the first congress split in 1969. He had stuck to his earlier commitment to vote for the official Congress candidate, Sanjeeva Reddy in the presidential elections and in doing so, had invited the ire of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, but later be shifted his ground and supported her. In doing so, he exposed himself to the charge of duplicity and of being a fence-sitter. According to Hatalkar, it might be said in his favour that he had nothing in common with the Syndicate faction of the Congress party but was fully in rapport with Mrs.
Yashwantrao Chavan | Roles in Central Government
He is attracted to politics during his college days and he was influenced by the then socialist leaders Late. Sri Muduganti Ramgopal Reddy, Late. Sri. G. Rajaram and BR Ganga Reddy of Nizamabad district. He was elected as General Secretary in 1964–65 and as President in 1966–67 of Giriraj Government College, Nizamabad. Later he was elected as Grampanchayath Member of Muchkur village in 1970. He was appointed as district youth congress President Nizamabad in 1971. Elected as General Secretary for Nizamabad Beedi Mazdur Sangh, Nizamabad. He worked as State Council Member, Andhra Pradesh Youth Congress Committee in 1975. he joined YSR congress party.
Sanigaram Santosh Reddy | Entry into politics
Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah was an Indian politician. He was the Governor of Bihar from 15 March 1985 to 25 February 1988 and the Governor of Karnataka, India from 26 February 1988 to 5 February 1990. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Nandyal (Lok Sabha constituency) six times and was the Union Minister of State for Home and Parliamentary Affairs in both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi cabinet. P.V. Narasimha Rao was an Indian lawyer, politician, and activist who served as the ninth Prime Minister of India (1991–1996), registered his record-breaking victory in 1992 from Nandyal (Lok Sabha constituency). Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982, and the only person to be elected President of India unopposed, fought the Lok Sabha election from Nandyal constituency as a Janata Party candidate.
Nandyal | Politics
He was a prominent Dalit face of MP Congress. Labour and Parliamentary Affairs minister in Rajiv Gandhi ministry, Member of Parliament for consecutive 18 years, Chairman of Parliament Housing Committee, President of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee for two terms, President of All India Harijan Sewak Sangh New Delhi which was formed by Mahatma Gandhi, MLA from Sanwer constituency and President of Indore District Congress Committee for 14 years.
Radhakishan Malviya | Political career
Reddy and her husband, Ramachandra Reddy, established a medical practice in Saudi Arabia. In 1985, upon the request of Rajiv Gandhi, the couple returned to India so that Geeta could work on behalf of the Indian National Congress party. She contested elections for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1989 and became MLA for Gajwel in Medak district. She won that constituency again in 2004. In the 2009 elections, Reddy was parachuted into the Zahirabad constituency, which had elected INC candidates in every election bar one since 1957. Converted to a seat reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Castes, the constituency had been held for a decade by the INC's Mohammed Fareeduddin, who commanded much local respect but was forced by this decision to contest the election elsewhere and lost.
J. Geeta Reddy | Political career
In 1951, Narasimhan stood for the Lok Sabha elections from Krishnagiri parliamentary constituency and was elected by a margin of 6,194 votes over his nearest rival, C. Doraisami Gounder. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1957 by a close margin of 367 votes over his nearest rival G. D. Naidu and served till 1962 when he lost his seat to K. Rajaram of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He stayed on in the Indian National Congress even after his father had quit the party and had allied with its opponents quitting the Indian National Congress and joining the Swatantra Party only in the 1960s.
C. R. Narasimhan | Post-independence politics
He held District and state level positions at Communist Party of India. He worked as secretary of Communist Party of India, ramannapeta taluk, and as district president of Raithu Sangam and also as State president of Akhila Bharatha Raithu Sangam of Andrapradesh.
Gurram Yadagiri Reddy | Political Career
M. Seervai. The faction of the Janata Party supporting Desai continued to have the support of 205 MPs as opposed to Charan Singh's 80 MPs. Reddy used presidential discretion in choosing Charan Singh as the next Prime Minister over a contending claim from Jagjivan Ram, the leader of the Janata Party.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Morarji Desai government (1977–79)
Congress (O) veteran and Janata candidate Neelam Sanjiva Reddy won the presidential election to become the 6th President of India on 25 July 1977. The results of its election defeat considerably weakened and diminished the Congress (R). Significant numbers of Congress (R) MPs and activists condemned Indira's leadership and left the party. As a result, MPs still loyal to Indira Gandhi renamed their party to Congress (I) – "I" standing for Indira. Although no longer an MP, Indira Gandhi continued as the president of Congress (I), which remained the largest opposition party.
Janata Party | Government formation
Jagjivan Ram was a senior politician within the Indian National Congress and had been a loyalist of Indira Gandhi. He had held various cabinet posts, and had served India's defence minister during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He was also the most prominent Scheduled Caste or Dalit politician in the nation. Ram had stayed loyal to Indira after she imposed a state of emergency in 1975. However, the state of emergency had proven widely unpopular and upon calling elections in 1977, it became apparent that Indira's Indian National Congress could suffer defeat. Consequently, Ram and his supporters resigned from the government and the Indian National Congress in January 1977, denouncing Indira Gandhi and her Emergency rule.
Congress for Democracy | Formation
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was elected on 21 July 1977 and was sworn in as the sixth President of India on 25 July 1977. Reddy worked with three governments, with Prime Ministers Morarji Desai, Charan Singh and Indira Gandhi. Reddy announced, on the eve of India's thirtieth anniversary of Independence, that he would be moving out of the Rashtrapati Bhawan to a smaller accommodation and that he would be taking a 70 percent pay cut in solidarity with India's impoverished masses.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | President of India
He started his political career in the year 2009 by quitting his designation as 'Civil Servant' from Indian Railways and joined in the politics. He was opted by Congress Party Leader and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr. Y.S. Raja Sekhar Reddy to be Member of Legislative Assembly for Yerragondapalem Constituency for the term 2009 general elections. He won as 'Member of Legislative Assembly' in the first attempt itself and did many development works in the constituency for the welfare of the people. Later, he was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly for the Santhanuthalapadu Constituency.
Adimulapu Suresh | Political career
He tried for the position of the President of the Congress Party unsuccessfully against Pattabhi Sitaramayya in 1948 but contested successfully against Acharya Kriplani in the controversial and difficult 1950 election to head the Nagpur session. He soon resigned from Congress's president post because of differences with Nehru and as Nehru's popularity was needed for winning elections. Nehru, while being the PM, also became the president of Congress for 1951 and 1952. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952 and the Rajya Sabha in 1956. He retired from active public life after that due to indifferent health. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1961.
Purushottam Das Tandon | Post-Independence
He met Jawaharlal Nehru in England in 1925. He joined the Indian National Congress and actively participated in the Indian Freedom Movement. In 1942 he was arrested during the Quit India Movement and sentenced to 3 1/2 years' imprisonment. He was a member of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 1936 and of AICC from 1947 to 1974, and remained the Minister of Finance, Revenue and labour in 1948 Gopinath Bordoloi Ministry. After Independence he was elected to the Rajya Sabha (1952–1953) and there after became Advocate-General of the Government of Assam. He was elected on Congress ticket to the Assam Legislative Assembly on two terms (1957–1962) and (1962–1967) from Jania constituency.
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | Political years
He later served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India (1977–79); then in 1980, he formed Congress (J). At his death, he was the last surviving minister of the Interim Government and the last surviving original member of the first cabinet of independent India.
Jagjivan Ram | Introduction
He also remained President of Servants of the People Society (Lok Sevak Mandal), a social service organisation founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, in 1921. He worked as the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the present-day Uttar Pradesh for a period of 13 years, from 31 July 1937 to 10 August 1950. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946.
Purushottam Das Tandon | Freedom struggle
This was later regrouped as Congress (I) party in 1978. He served as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Andhra Pradesh districts in 1972. He rose to national prominence in 1972 for handling several diverse portfolios, most significantly Home, Defence and Foreign Affairs, in the cabinets of both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He serves as Foreign minister from 1980 to 1984 and then from 1988 to 1989. In fact, it is speculated that he was in the running for the post of India's President along with Zail Singh in 1982. Rao very nearly retired from politics in 1991. It was the assassination of the Congress President Rajiv Gandhi that persuaded him to make a comeback.
P. V. Narasimha Rao | Political career
Madan Mohan contested the Siddipet assembly seat in the 1970 by-poll and won. Later joined Congress and won from Siddipet in the 1972, 1978 and 1983 elections. During this period starting from 1972 he served as a Minister in the cabinets of Cabinets of P.V. Narasimha Rao, Marri Chenna Reddy, Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy, Tanguturi Anjaiah and Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy. He held various portfolios like Revenue, Health, Mines and Geology, Law, Commercial Taxes and Technical Education in his 10 year career. He was instrumental in starting the JNTU, Hyderabad when serving as Minister of Technical Education. Post 1983 elections, when Telugu Desam Party won a landslide victory under N.
Ananthula Madan Mohan | Political career
He ran as a Janata Party candidate, but used Sonia Gandhi's posters and the Congress's manifesto, claiming that, ideologically, he was inseparable from the Congress and, too, that Sonia Gandhi was the best hope for India. He was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly with a majority of over five thousand votes. Within the House, he was elected to the Floor Leadership of the Janata Party; his expulsion from Congress was eventually annulled and he was in 2004 made an "associate member" of its legislative wing. Among the non-ministerial members, Komireddi's perhaps is the most enviable position within the House: he enjoys virtually all the benefits of being a Congress member, including invitations to the Congress Legislative Party's meetings where he is known to air his views volubly, while retaining the enviable independence of a Floor Leader.
Ramlu Komireddi | Politics: 1970s — present
Shantaram Potdukhe joined Congress (I) and contested elections in 1980. He defeated Raje Vishveshvar Rao who was a member of the 6th Lok Sabha. Potdukhe was re-elected three subsequent terms from the same constituency and party. During his term as Member of Parliament, Potdukhe held position of Union Minister of State and was also member of several committees.
Shantaram Potdukhe | Political career
He served in the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1952–69, holding many portfolios including the Agriculture, Development and Home ministries. At the national level he was appointed to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in 1954 and served in the apex congress decision making body the Congress Working Committee from 1962, he held both appointments till his death in 1990. He was elected to the lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha in 1971 from the Hoshiarpur constituency in Punjab. Even though he was never appointed as a Union Minister, he retained deep influence in the party being elected Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha in 1971.
Darbara Singh | Freedom struggle and provincial politics
Reddy was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly as a Communist Party of India candidate in 1951 from Anantaptur. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anantapur 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 Anantapur. 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).
T. Nagi Reddy | Introduction
After completing his undergraduate studies in 1935 at the age of 26, Ram Prakash joined the Indian National Congress. This was a time of intense political and social activity in India. Jawaharlal Nehru who later become the first prime minister of India had become a prominent leader of the Indian National Congress which was demanding and fighting for complete political independence from the British occupation. This was also a time when Mahatma Gandhi briefly resigned from the Indian National Congress, Subhash Bose (popularly referred to as 'Netaji') had strong philosophical clashes with Mahatma Gandhi, and the struggle for independence became much stronger than in the past.
Lala Ram Prakash Gupta | Early political life
He held that post till 1984. Then he became the Secretary of the National Council of the party as well as the Member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He held both the posts till his death. He was the leader of the party in parliament also. He headed a Constitutional Reform Committee of the party when the Soviet Crisis erupted.
N. E. Balaram | Election to State Assembly
Rao joined politics after Indian independence. Rao held the position of MLA in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three terms before becoming a Member of Parliament in the 6th Lok Sabha of India. He was a member of the Bharatiya Lok Dal political party.
Raje Vishveshvar Rao | Political career
NSR was elected as the President of Andhra University Hostel's literary Association on students' congress ticket in 1955. He was the vice-president of Andhra University Students Congress and a member of the state Executive of the student’s congress. NSR joined active politics in 1962. He was the President of Kota Panchayat Samiti for 10 years (1962-72). He was elected to Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate from Gudur constituency in 1972, and led Socialist democratic front on the floor of assembly till 1977. Just before Lok Sabha elections he was admitted into Congress. He has created record in the history of Assembly by never absenting even a single sitting since he was elected from 1972.
Srinivasulu Reddy Nallapareddy | Political career
Those attempts were unsuccessful and in the 2004 from narsaroapet parliamentary constituency and in 2009 elections from nellore parliamentary constituency as INC candidate, winning on both occasions. Reddy then became a member of the YSR Congress and was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in a by-election.. He was elected as Leader in Lok Sabha from YSRCP Party.
Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy | Introduction
Patil started his political career along with his work in non-Brahman movement. Following the Government of India Act 1935, when elections were held in 1937, he ran the elections as a candidate of non-Brahmin party and won the election against a candidate of Indian National Congress (Congress). He joined the Congress around the Quit India movement of 1942. He was a member of Central Provinces and Berar assembly from 1937 to 1952. After Independence of India, Patil was mostly involved in work in education and agriculture sector. He also took part in United Maharashtra Movement in the 1950s. Patil was elected to the upper house of Parliament of India, Rajya Sabha, in 1962 and was a member for two terms till 1974.
Pandharinath Sitaramji Patil | Political career
Following these disqualifications, Reddy remained the only validly nominated candidate in the fray which made elections unnecessary. Reddy thus became the first person to be elected President of India without a contest and remains the only President to have been elected unopposed.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Presidential election of 1977
Maharadhi along with the few intellectuals decided that a sammohan shakti is required to counter the charisma of Indira Gandhi, hence in that process N.T.R was finally convinced to join the initiative wherein he took over the reins and finally Telugu Tejam was named as Telugu desam to fight the next electoral battle. Maharadhi also served as Andhra Pradesh Congress State Secretary when Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was Andhra Pradesh Congress president. In this position, he was instrumental in promoting YSR in the east and west Godavari districts in Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy's early days. When the Bharatiya Janata Party came into existence, he served briefly as a National Council member.
Tripuraneni Maharadhi | Role in politics
Reddy was a student leader during his college life and in 1970s he joined the Indian National Congress. He became an MLA of Kalwakurthy in Andhra Pradesh. Reddy was an MLA of Kalwakurthy between 1969 and 1984, a constituency in Andhra Pradesh for four terms. He quit his membership of the Congress Party to protest against the emergency and joined the Janata Party in 1977 and later on its splinter Janata Dal. He was the general secretary of the Janata Party from 1985 to 1988. He was elected to the 8th Lok Sabha in 1984 from Mahbubnagar lok sabha. He joined back the Congress Party in 1999 and was elected to the 14th in 2004 from Miryalaguda constituency and the 15th in 2009 from Chavella.
Jaipal Reddy | Career
Jana Reddy resigned from the Telugu Desam Party after differing with N.T.Rama Rao on expelling 30 cabinet ministers in 1988 and founded a political party - Telugumahanadu which eventually merged with Congress on call given by then AICC president Shri Late Rajiv Gandhi ji. He played an active role in reviving the Congress Party specifically in the Telangana Region to fight the then ruling Telugu Desam Party which lost the elections in 2004 to the Congress Party. Jana Reddy was sworn in as the Minister for Home Affairs in the 2004 AP Cabinet for his progressive contribution to the Congress Party.
Kunduru Jana Reddy | Early life and politics
When Congress split during the mid-1970s, Rao initially did not join with the faction led by Indira Gandhi that was referred to as Congress (I). However, he did join in 1984 and with his election to the Lok Sabha in that year he served in the cabinet of Rajiv Gandhi, holding the post of Union Minister for Industry until 1989. For much of this period, between 1984 and 1988, he was also president of the state organisation of his political party, being the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee.
Jalagam Vengala Rao | Congress split
In addition, he was elected unanimously as President of the Congress Parliamentary Party on 3 January 1997. After his exit from office in March 1998, he maintained a relatively low profile in politics. He was also denied party candidature for the Rajya Sabha once his last term ended in April 2000.
Sitaram Kesri | Political Career in Independent India
He entered active politics in 1942. He plunged into the vortex of the freedom struggle while studying at the Christian College in Chennai. He was founder-president of the Indian Student Congress and the World Youth Assembly. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvalla in Kerala in 1962 on a Congress ticket. When Congress split in 1969, he stayed on as the General Secretary of Congress (Organisation) founding the organization along with Morarji Desai, Nijalingappa and Kamaraj. He was politically active in resisting the Emergency (1975–77) and organized underground cells. He was next elected in 1977 from Ranchi in Bihar as a Janata Party candidate.
Ravindra Varma | Politics
Reddy started his career as a trade union leader in 1967. He represented many industrial trade unions before entering mainstream politics. He represented labour unions of Hyderabad Alwin, Kesavram Cements, NTPC and Vizag Steel factory. He was also the President for Associated Glass Industries Workers Union, A.P. Electrical Equipment Corporation Employees Union, A.P. Agro Industries Employees Union and Krishi Engines. Reddy was first elected to Andhra Pradesh assembly in 1978 and four more times (1985, 1989, 1994 and 2004) from Khairatabad constituency in Hyderabad, which is one of the most populous constituencies in the state. He lost only once to Telugu Desam rivals in 1999 Assembly elections.
P. Janardhan Reddy | Political career
He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha on two occasions, 1990–1996 and 1997–1998. He also held the position of leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha for a year from June 1991 to June 1992.He served as the minister for Information and Broadcasting in the government on two occasions: in 1997–1998 under I. K. Gujral and from 2004 under Manmohan Singh with additional responsibility for Culture. He also served as the minister for Urban Development and Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Jaipal Reddy | Career
From 1982 to 1999, he was the legislative leader of the party. Shanmughadas served as the State Secretary of K.S.U. and Indian Youth Congress during 1966-69 period, with A. K. Antony as the President. He briefly served as the secretary of Malappuram district Congress Committee, and later served as the President of Kozhikode from 1973 to 1978. When Congress party was split in 1978, he joined the faction led by D. Devaraj Urs, called Indian Congress (Socialist) a.k.a. Congress (S). He later stood firmly with Left Democratic Front until his death. When Congress (S) was split in 1986, he joined the faction headed by Sarat Chandra Sinha.
A. C. Shanmughadas | Political life
In 1982 and 1983 he held the portfolio of Minister of Employment, Social Security and National Solidarity. In 1990 he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Industrial Technology. When he formed part of the Opposition in Parliament he was “Opposition Whip” and Chairman of the “Public Accounts Committee.” On 15 February 2002 he resigned from his function, after refusing to sign a controversial anti-terrorism bill, namely PoTA, into the constitution. His term would have ended in June 2002. He was replaced as president by Angidi Chettiar.
Cassam Uteem | Political career
The Parliament mourned Reddy's death on 11 June 1996 and members cutting across party lines paid him tribute and recalled his contributions to the nation and the House. Reddy authored a book, "Without Fear or Favour: Reminiscences and Reflections of a President", published in 1989. The character Mahendranath, Chief Minister of the fictional state of Afrozabad in former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's novel, "The Insider", is based on Reddy, portraying his career in Andhra Pradesh and his political rivalry with Kasu Brahmananda Reddy.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Later life and death
K. S. Reddy later joined the Alliance Party while AD. Patel had formed the Federation Party. In the 1966 election, Reddy was given the ticket to the Western cross-voting seat by the Alliance Party. This seat was regarded as safe for the Federation Party because of its large Indian majority, but Reddy surprised everyone by winning the election and was appointed an assistant Minister in the next Alliance Government. After independence, Reddy was rewarded for his loyalty to the Alliance Party by being given a safe seat in the Central Division which he held from 1972 to 1982, except for a brief period between April 1977 to September 1977.
K. S. Reddy | Politician
In 1983, he contested from Penukonda won as MLA by defeating Gangula Narayana Reddy. Later in 1985 he contested from Telugu Desam party and won by defeating G Veeranna of the Congress Party. This time he became Minister in N. T. Rama Rao's government. He served as minister for Industry and Ports and Chairman of Backward Classes Welfare Committee. But he lost to S Chenna Reddy in the 1989 elections. In 1996 he won as MP from Hindupur (Lok Sabha constituency) by defeating S. Gangadhar, with a 172,422 vote majority. In 1998 he was defeated by S. Gangadhar.
S. Ramachandra Reddy | Political life
Reddy was a born on 17 June 1930 in the village of Malchalma, Medak District in India. Born into an agriculture based family, he completed his secondary education in Bidar (Karnataka) and went on to complete his B.A. L.L.B from Osmania University in Hyderabad. He campaigned for Indira Gandhi in Medak district where she was elected as the prime minister of India in the 1980s. He was first elected to the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly on the Congress party ticket at an age of 26 from the Zaheerabad constituency in Medak District. Since then he has been voted back to the assembly seven consecutive times.He could retain his assemly seat in both 1983 and 1985 assembly elections despite there was a wave of N.T.Rama Rao's Telugu Desam Party.
Mogaligundla Baga Reddy | Early life and political career
He initially got elected as president of then Ganjam district Congress Committee. He became member of Andhra Rashtra Congress Committee and All India Congress Committee from 1934 to 1951. From 1946 to 1951, he was elected as joint secretary of Andhra Rashtra Congress Committee. As secretary of Andhra Congress Sevadal, he conducted Congress Sevadal Officer's Training Camp for both men and women at Palasa in Srikakulam. During 1946 Madras assembly elections, he was denied congress ticket against the wishes of congress workers on the pretext of being violent when underground. Instead, Latchanna made Rokkam Rammurthy Naidu get the nomination and played a decisive role in getting him elected.
Gouthu Latchanna | Political life
In 1985, as a member of parliament, he served as the head of the Indian delegation to the United National General Assembly, New York. In 1992 he contested the Indian presidential election as a joint opposition candidate against Shankar Dayal Sharma but lost. He was member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) from Meghalaya during 1990-1996. The worsening health of his wife, Lajopthiaw, who passed away in early 1998, was a factor in his withdrawal from political life.
George Gilbert Swell | Political career
Reddy was succeeded as president by Giani Zail Singh, who was sworn in on 25 July 1982. In his farewell address to the nation, Reddy criticised the failure of successive governments in improving the lives of the Indian masses and called for the emergence of a strong political opposition to prevent governmental misrule. Following his presidential term, the then Chief Minister of Karnataka Ramakrishna Hegde invited Reddy to settle down in Bangalore but he chose to retire to his farm in Anantapur. He died of pneumonia in Bangalore in 1996 at the age of 83. His "samadhi" is at Kalpally Burial Ground, Bangalore.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Later life and death
He had a brief political career during 1969–1975. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1969. He became the General Secretary of Law College Student Congress in the Madras Law College. Later he became the Vice-President of Youth Congress in Madras. During this period, he was a Trade Union Leader as well. Rangarajan Kumaramangalam and Krishnamani organised the Hotel Employees for this first time and were running the Hotel Employees Union successfully. In 1975 he left politics and plunged into spirituality, education and social work, besides continuing in Legal Profession having active practice in different branches of Law.
M. N. Krishnamani | Politics
Ramaswamy Iyer. In 1949, he gave up his career as a journalist and started practising law. In 1951, he joined active politics and in the same year became the D.C.C. president of Kollam. He was a close associate of veteran Congress leaders P. T. Chacko, Pattom Thanu Pillai and R. Sankar and provided leadership in the Vimochana Samaram during 1958-59 period as an associate of P. T. Chacko, Pattom Thanu Pillai, R. Sankar and others. He was also one of the founding fathers of Indian National Trade Union Congress, the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. He won the State elections in 1960, 1965 and 1971.
C. M. Stephen | Introduction
He came through the Student Movement of the Indian National Congress. He became the President of the District Congress Committee of Kollam, and also held position viz. K.P.C.C. Executive Member, A.I.C.C. Member. He held portfolios like Industries, Health, Agriculture in the Panampilli Govinda Menon's Travancore Cochin State Ministry in 1954. He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1957,60,65,70,77. In 1980 he was elected to the Loksabha from Chirayinkeezhu Constituency and served as the Union Minister of State for External Affairs in the Indira Gandhi Government. In 1989-90 he also served as the Governor of Meghalaya.
A. A. Rahim | Political life
T. Rajan. Reddy finally quit the party in 1952. In 1952, Reddy contested the First Lok Sabha elections as an independent from Nellore and was successful. He served as a Member of the Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1957.
Bezawada Ramachandra Reddy | In the Legislative Council
However, the stay was nullified by the "habeas corpus" judgment in Additional District Magistrate of Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla. Jethmalani exiled himself in Canada carrying on his campaign against the emergency. He returned to India ten months later after the emergency was lifted. While in Canada, his candidature for the Parliament was filed from the Bombay North-West constituency. He won the election and retained the seat in 1980 general elections, but lost to Sunil Dutt in 1985. In the 1977 general elections after the emergency, he won against then serving Union law minister H. R. Gokhale from Bombay in the Lok Sabha elections, and hence started his political career as a parliamentarian.
Ram Jethmalani | As a politician
Reddy was once named a board member of NG Ranga Agricultural University. He has received the prestigious National Citizens Award from the Indian central government, being honoured along with Mother Teresa. He later joined the Congress party of India. In the 2000 Indian municipal elections, Reddy was denied a spot on the ticket. Between 2000 and 2004, Reddy participated in several protests with farmers. He also became the honorary president of Nandi Raithu Samakhya. In 2003, he fought for the release of irrigation water from Srisailam Reservoir. In the 2004 Assembly elections, Reddy received a place on the Congress Party ticket, subsequently winning by 49,500 votes over then-TDP minister N.
Silpa Mohan Reddy | Politics
He entered the State Assembly in 1946, and was a member until 1962, barring a gap of two years. During his tenure in the State Assembly, he assumed a very important role in State Politics. During those times, Chief Ministers like, Sri Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, Sri Gopal Reddy and Sri Sanjeevayya, were among those who sought the blessings of Sri Manthena Venkata Raju. He always professed the principal of retirement from active politics after a certain age, like in any other salaried job; in accordance with this principle, he retired from Politics at the age of 58, in the year 1962.
Manthena Venkata Raju | Political Leader
After independence of India, he represented Kutch constituency in 3rd Lok Sabha, for the years 1962–67, as a member of Swatantra Party which won over the rival Congress party. He was also President of local caste body of Rajputs – Sri Cutch Rajput Sabha, for several decades.
Himmatsinhji M. K. | Politics
Lakshmi Narasimha Reddy. In the 2009 assembly elections, when Telangana Rashtra Samithi made an alliance with Telugu Desam Party, he opposed it and joined the Indian National Congress to show his hostility against Chandrababu Naidu. He played a very crucial role in helping Ponnala Laxmiah from Congress Party to win 2009 Assembly Elections in the New Jangaon Merger Cherial constituency.
Nimma Raja Reddy | Political Life
P. Narsa Reddy has been in active politics since early 1940s. Prior to becoming an MP he was also Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) for three straight terms and member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council for one term. In 1971, he was the President of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee.
P. Narsa Reddy | Post independence
Nandyala Srinivasa Reddy was elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly from Nakrekal Constituency during the 1962 General Elections. He played a key role in the CPI(M) party activities during his active years as the member of the district and state committees. NSR was part of the special screening committee established by the Government of India to examine and approve the pension applications of freedom fighters who participated in the Telangana Armed Struggle.
Nandyala Srinivasa Reddy | Political life
He served in that position until June 1988, when he became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time. He was an unsuccessful contender to be Prime Minister of India in the early 1990s but was pipped to the post by P. V. Narasimha Rao. In 1994, he resigned from Congress and formed his own All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) along with senior Congress leader, Arjun Singh in 1995. He joined back when Sonia Gandhi came at the helm of affairs of the party two years later, and after a devastating defeat of the party under Narasimha Rao during the general elections in 1996.
N. D. Tiwari | Later positions
When the United People's Freedom Alliance won the 2004 general elections he was given the post of Minister of Power and Energy When Mahinda Rajapaksa became President, he was again appointed Minister of Education and after the 2010 general elections as the Minister of Petroleum Industries and in a 2013 cabinet reshuffle he became the Minister of Environment and Renewable Energy
Susil Premajayantha | Political career
Relations between Reddy and Desai soon soured over the latter's promotion of his son, Kanti Desai, in politics and over Desai's communication with Chief Ministers Vengala Rao and Channa Reddy on the issue of land ceilings in Andhra Pradesh. Following mass defections from the Janata Party and from the cabinet, Morarji Desai's 30-month-old government ended in July 1979 after he handed in his resignation to Reddy before a no-confidence motion could be tabled against his government in Parliament. Reddy's actions following Desai's resignation have been much debated. His decision to accept Desai's resignation before an alternative government created a ministerial vacuum in the executive according to H.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Morarji Desai government (1977–79)
He was a D.M.K. party member and activist. Contested for Legislative Assembly Elections in 1977 for D.M.K and lost to T.R. Erajaram Reddy INC. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1989 and served till 1995. He contested for the Lok Sabha elections representing D.M.K and got elected to the eleventh Lok Sabha in 1996, defeating his nearest rival Mr.Tindivanam.K.Ramamurthy INC with a whooping margin of 190,276 votes. He was appointed Union Cabinet Minister of Surface Transport (independent charge).
T. G. Venkatraman | Political Life
He was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1952 and was Leader of Opposition in the Assembly until 1962.The parties he was affiliated with included CSP,1934–48, Socialist Party, 1948–52, Praja Socialist Party,1952–1955. Socialist Party,1956–64.Samyukta Socialist Party,1964–72.Socialist Party, 1971–72, Socialist Party (Lohia) 1972–74, Bhartiya Lok Dal, 1974–77. Janata Party, 1977–79, Janata Party (Secular), 1979–80. Democratic Socialist Party, 1981–83. Janata Party, 1983–84, and Socialist Party 1984 till his death in 1986. Party positions he held included, Member National Executive, PSP, 1954–55. Chairman, Socialist Party,1961–64. He was Member of the Rajya Sabha, 1966–72 and 1974–77.
Raj Narain | Career after Independence
He entered into politics in 1962 at the age of 25 as an independent without any political background.
Nimma Raja Reddy | Political roles
Rao was a freedom fighter and joined the Indian National Congress. He was elected as M.L.A. from Amalapuram assembly constituency (general) located in East Godavari district of Madras presidency in 1937 Legislative election and 1946 Legislative election. He held cabinet ministries during tenures of Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar and Kumaraswamy Raja. He was also a member of Indian Constituent Assembly elected from Madras Presidency. He was member of 7-member Partition Committee which was set up on 7 December 1949 by then Madras Government for the formation of Andhra State out of Madras State. The committee was set up under the Chairmanship of Kumaraswamy Raja, the then Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, wherein Andhra was represented by other members along with him such as Tanguturi Prakasam, Bezawada Gopala Reddy and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
Kala Venkata Rao | Politics
Instead, he agreed to lead the Congress (R) in the state and helped win all the 27 seats at the 1971 Lok Sabha elections and majority in the 1972 legislative assembly elections. Under his leadership Congress(R) won 165/216 seats, thus garnering more than 75% of the seats. Congress(O) came a distant second with 24 seats. Independents won 20 seats. CPI won 3 while BJS, the earlier avatar of BJP stood second in 16 seats, winning none . He was chief minister of Karnataka for the full term of the assembly from 1972 to December 1977. In January 1978, he joined Congress (I) as Mrs Gandhi split the party yet again.
D. Devaraj Urs | Politics
In the 1960s, when he was Union Minister for Mines, a statue of him had been unveiled at Vijayawada by K Kamaraj, the then president of the Congress Party, prompting Reddy to ask for its removal as he deemed the practice of erecting statues of people holding public office undesirable. A statue of Sanjiva Reddy, unveiled in 2005, stands at the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Commemoration
The Indian National Congress government was defeated in the general elections of 1989. In June 1991, Chidambaram was inducted as a Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce, by the then Prime Minister Mr P V Narasimha Rao; a post he held till July 1992. He was later re-appointed Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce in February 1995 and held the post until April 1996. He made some radical changes in India's export-import (EXIM) policy, while at the Ministry of Commerce. In 1996, Chidambaram quit the Congress party and joined a breakaway faction of the Tamil Nadu state unit of the Congress party called the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC).
P. Chidambaram | Political career
His next two terms were as a Congressman, winning elections in 1971 and 1980. Mandya has remained a Congress stronghold, represented in Lok Sabha later by his political proteges like Ambareesh and Divya Spandana (also known as Ramya). S M Krishna resigned from Lok Sabha in 1972, and became MLC in Karnataka and was appointed a minister by Devaraj Urs. After he went back to Lok Sabha in 1980, and he served as minister under Indira Gandhi between 1983–84. He lost from Mandya Lok Sabha seat in 1984 and it is unclear if he served as a minister between 1984 and 1985 under Rajiv Gandhi.
S. M. Krishna | Political career
In 2006, due to the BJP - Janta Dal (Secular) (JDS) coalition government and the efforts of Reddy, B. Sriramulu was made a Cabinet Minister. In 2006, Reddy was made a Member of the Legislative Council to recognize his active role in increasing the BJP presence in Bellary. However, in later years, Reddy fought with Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy, and made allegations, and provided evidence of corruption, resulting in his suspension. However, H. D. Kumaraswamy did not hand over the government to B. S. Yeddyurappa at the required time. The State President of the party at the time, D.
G. Janardhana Reddy | As a politician
Dr. Reddy joined the trade union movement as a young worker in 1948 and was elected General Secretary of Intuc Andhra Branch in 1950. He was soon elevated as its President in 1994 which position he continues till today. In addition, he is also the president of premier National Trade Unions in Electricity, Tunnel, Coal, Health, Medical, Engineering, Chemical, Municipal, Cement Workers, Steel Workers, Cigarette and Tobacco Workers. Dr. Reddy was first elected to coveted post of President, INTUC on 3 August 1994 form Shri G. Ramanujam when he was appointed as Governor of Orissa in 1994 and since then he has been unanimously elected continuously.
G. Sanjeeva Reddy | Early career
Reddy entered politics when he was appointed to the Senate, in 1972, by the then leader of the opposition, Sidiq Koya. In 1976 he was instrumental in bringing the two factions of the party together. Reddy replaced Sidiq Koya as leader of the NFP in September 1977, following major internal strife which had resulted in the party's missing out on forming the government despite its narrow victory in the election of March 1977, and its subsequent crushing defeat in a second election held to resolve the political stalemate in September. Under his leadership, the NFP made substantial gains in the election of 1982, but fell short of ousting the longtime Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, and was subsequently deposed as party leader in favour of Koya in 1983.
Jai Ram Reddy | Political career
He was the Member of Parliament from Bombay when it was part of the unified Bombay State. He was a Union Minister during the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shashtri and Indira Gandhi. Though a three-time MP, he was defeated by George Fernandes in Mumbai South (Lok Sabha constituency) in 1967 for 4th Lok Sabha. He then fought a by-poll from Banaskantha in Gujarat and rejoined Lok Sabha. In 1969, during the split in the Congress party, he along with Morarji Desai and Nijalingappa became the leading lights of the Congress (O) faction. He contested from Banaskantha Lok Sabha seat in 1971 on Congress (O) ticket but lost to the Congress (R) candidate.
S. K. Patil | Career
In the elections of 1980, Indira Gandhi's party the Indian National Congress (I) returned to power by winning 351 seats in the Lok Sabha. Neither the Janata Party nor Charan Singh's Lok Dal won the 54 seats needed for recognition as the official opposition in Parliament. Indira was sworn in as Prime Minister by Reddy for what would become her last term in office in January 1980. Between 1980 and 1982 President Reddy led seven state visits abroad, visiting the USSR, Bulgaria, Kenya, Zambia, the UK, Ireland, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia. At home, as president, he signed an ordinance that gave the new government wide powers to imprison people for up to a year without trial under preventive detention and ordered the imposition of President's rule in nine opposition-ruled states on the advice of the government.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | Indira Gandhi's return to power (1980–82)
Reddy joined politics in 2013 on invitation from K. Chandrashekar Rao, President of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Party. Further, he won the Member of Parliament seat from Chevella Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 General Elections by over a margin of 75,000 votes. He resigned from Telangana Rashtra Samithi on 21 November 2018 and joined Indian National Congress on 23 November 2018 in the presence of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Konda Vishweshwar Reddy | Political career
He was made All India Congress Committee (AICC) member in 2001, during which he extended a strong support to Late Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy in his padayatra which had brought back Congress to power in the state. Dr. Reddy was highly impressed by VNR's support and appointed him as Chairman for Andhra Pradesh State Mines Development Corporation in 2005 during his tenure as Chief Minister. In 2012 he left the Indian National Congress party to join YSR Congress Party. He has been selected by the party to contest for Andhra Pradesh State Assembly elections in 2014.
Vaddepalli Narsing Rao | Political career
Reddy has been elected 6 times to the State Assembly from the Tadipatri constituency in the Anantapur district. He was denied entry into the cabinet in 2009 and also later in N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s ministry in 2010. He served as Pro tem Speaker in 2011 .
J. C. Diwakar Reddy | Political career