L.B.G. Rao

Lavu Balagangadhara Rao (3 August 1921 – 28 March 2003) was an Indian politician.[1][2] He served as the Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) between May 1985 and November 1991.[1]

L.B.G. Rao was the son of Lavu Subrahmanyam. He studied at the Andhra-Christian College in Guntur. In 1938, during his student days, he joined the Communist Party of India.[1] In 1942 he became a CPI whole-timer.[3] He went underground and was active in the Telangana armed struggle. He led various guerrilla squads, acting as the Amarabad party secretary.[1][4] He got married in 1947, whilst being underground.[1] In total he would go underground five times in his life, spanning a period of over eleven years.[3] He was also jailed three times, and spent two and a half years in prison.[1]

L.B.G. Rao was fielded as the CPI candidate in a by-election for the Duggirala seat in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in June 1954. He finished in second place with 20,644 votes (42.5% of the votes in the constituency).[5][6]

After the split in the CPI, L.B.G. Rao sided with the CPI(M). He became a Central Committee member of CPI(M).[1] As of 1979 he served as the secretary of the State Agricultural Labourers Union.[7] He also served as president of the All India Agricultural Workers Union.[3] L.B.G. Rao stood as the CPI(M) candidate for the Tenali seat in the 1980 Indian general election. He finished in second place, with 144,457 votes (32.70%).[8] In 1989 he was included in the Polit Bureau of the party.[1] Due to old age, he retired from the Polit Bureau in 1998.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 People's Democracy. A LIFE OF SACRIFICES
  2. ↑ Times of India. Veteran CPM leader dead
  3. 1 2 3 4 People's Democracy. Comrade L B Gangadhara Rao
  4. ↑ I. Mallikarjuna Sharma (2003). In Retrospect: West India. Ravi Sasi Enterprises. p. 373. ISBN 978-81-88151-01-1.
  5. ↑ Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  6. ↑ Margaret Welpley Fisher; Joan Valérie Bondurant (1956). The Indian experience with democratic elections. University of California. p. 4.
  7. ↑ Andhra Pradesh (India). Legislature. Legislative Council (1979). Debates; Official Report. p. 235.
  8. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1980 TO THE SEVENTH LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)
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