Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
In office 31 March 2012 – 21 July 2019
Preceded by	Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan
Succeeded by	D. Raja
Member of Parliament
In office 2004–2009
Preceded by	Gutha Sukender Reddy
Succeeded by	Gutha Sukender Reddy
Constituency	Nalgonda
In office 1998–1999
Preceded by	Bommagani Dharma Bhiksham
Succeeded by	Gutha Sukender Reddy
Constituency	Nalgonda
Personal details
Born	(1942-03-25) 25 March 1942 (age 82) Mahbubnagar, Hyderabad State, British India (now Telangana, India)
Political party	CPI
Spouse	Dr. B.V. Vijaya Lakshmi
Children	2 sons
Residence	Hyderabad
Alma mater	Osmania University
Website	http://suravaram.com/
As of 26 September, 2006 Source: [1]

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy is the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) from 2012 to 2019.^[1][2][3] He was a member of the 12th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nalgonda constituency of Telangana.^[4][5]

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.

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