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{{Short description|Former General secretary of the Communist party of India}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
| image = SUDAKAR REDDY DSC 0686.JPG
| website = http://suravaram.com/
| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1942|3|25|df=y}}
| birth_place =[[Mahbubnagar]], [[Hyderabad State]], [[British India]]<br/> (now [[Telangana]], [[India]])
| residence =[[Hyderabad]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office = [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of India]]
| predecessor = [[Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan]]
| successor = [[D. Raja]]
| term_start = 31 March 2012
| term_end = 21 July 2019
| office2 = [[Parliament of India|Member of Parliament]] 
| constituency2 = [[Nalgonda (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Nalgonda]]
| term_start2 = 2004
| term_end2 = 2009
| constituency3 = [[Nalgonda (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Nalgonda]]
| term_start3 = 1998
| term_end3 = 1999
| predecessor2 = [[Gutha Sukender Reddy]]
| successor2 = [[Gutha Sukender Reddy]]
| predecessor3 = [[Bommagani Dharma Bhiksham]]
| successor3 = [[Gutha Sukender Reddy]]
| party =[[Communist Party of India|CPI]] 
| spouse = Dr. B.V. Vijaya Lakshmi
| children = 2 sons
| nationality = [[India]]n
|alma_mater = [[Osmania University]]
| date = 26 September |
| year = 2006 |
| source = http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=3908
}}

'''Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy''' is the former General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI) from 2012 to 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title= Sudhakar Reddy steps into Bardhan's shoes as CPI general secretary|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sudhakar-reddy-steps-into-bardhans-shoes-as-cpi-general-secretary/article3266136.ece|website=thehindu.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Sudhakar Reddy is CPI general secretary again|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sudhakar-reddy-is-cpi-general-secretary-again/article7046445.ece|website=  thehindu.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Sudhakar Reddy unanimously re-elected CPI general secretary|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sudhakar-reddy-unanimously-re-elected-cpi-general-secretary-118042900492_1.html |website=  business-standard.com|language=en}}</ref> He was a member of the [[12th Lok Sabha|12th]] and [[14th Lok Sabha]] of [[India]]. He represented the [[Nalgonda (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Nalgonda]] constituency of [[Telangana]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3908.htm|title=Biographical Sketch of Member of 12th Lok Sabha}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=3908&lastls=14|title=Members : Lok Sabha}}</ref>

He was elected to serve as General Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI), on 31 March 2012 in the 21st party Congress. He has previously served as the Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour, while being a member of the parliament.

Born on 25 March 1942 at [[Hyderabad]], he was educated in the Municipal High School and Coles memorial High school in Kurnool.

He did his BA in History from Osmania College, Kurnool, in 1964 and LLB from Osmania University Law College in Hyderabad in the year 1967.

When he was 15, he became a crucial figure in an agitation seeking blackboards, chalk and books for his school in [[Kurnool]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. The movement spread and schools across [[Kurnool]] started raising similar demands. Reddy was later elected twice from the [[Nalgonda]] parliamentary constituency. Leader of several [[mass movement (politics)|mass struggles]], and widely admired within the party and outside.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy}}
* [http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/homepage.asp?mpsno=3908 Home Page on the Parliament of India's Website]
* [http://www.cpikhammam.com CPI Khammam]
* http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2012/09/5636#sthash.twBTT5gv.dpuf

==References==
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[[Category:1942 births]]
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[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from Telangana]]
[[Category:People from Mahbubnagar district]]
[[Category:India MPs 1998–1999]]
[[Category:India MPs 2004–2009]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Telangana]]
[[Category:People from Nalgonda district]]


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