Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy

{{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
(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 = Member of Parliament

| constituency2 = Nalgonda

| term_start2 = 2004

| term_end2 = 2009

| constituency3 = Nalgonda

| term_start3 = 1998

| term_end3 = 1999

| predecessor2 = Gutha Sukender Reddy

| successor2 = Gutha Sukender Reddy

| predecessor3 = Bommagani Dharma Bhiksham

| successor3 = Gutha Sukender Reddy

| party =CPI

| spouse = Dr. B.V. Vijaya Lakshmi

| children = 2 sons

| nationality = Indian

|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.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}} He was a member of the 12th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nalgonda constituency of Telangana.{{Cite web|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3908.htm|title=Biographical Sketch of Member of 12th Lok Sabha}}{{Cite web|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=3908&lastls=14|title=Members : Lok Sabha}}

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 struggles, and widely admired within the party and outside.