Patel Sudhakar Reddy was a leader of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

The Communist Party of India is a Maoist political party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through violent means. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the People's War, and the Maoist Communist Centre . The merger was announced to the public on October...

 (CPI[M]).

Life

He hailed from the village of Kurthiravulacheruvu, near Maldakal in Mahbubnagar

Mahbubnagar

Mahabubnagar or Mahboobnagar is the biggest town in Mahabubnagar District of Andhra Pradesh, India. The city of Mahabubnagar is located at a distance of 100 km from Hyderabad. Formerly known as, Rukmammapeta and Palamoor, it was named as Mahabubnagar on 4 December 1890, in the honour of Mir...

 district of Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

. Though was the son of a landlord, he was attracted to the proletarian revolutionary movement during his student life. He started his revolutionary career as a member of Radical Students Union in Gadwal

Gadwal

Gadwal is a town, Mandal and a municipality in Mahbubnagar district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located 188 km from Hyderabad, the state's capital.- Geography :Gadwal is located at...

 area. Later he joined the CPI (ML) People's War Group that later became the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

In 1983, Sudhakar Reddy moved to the Eturnagaram

Eturnagaram

Eturnagaram is a village and a mandal in Warangal district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is one of the most beautiful places in Andhra Pradesh. It is totally covered with deep forest....

-Mahadevpur

Mahadevpur

Mahadevpur is a mandal in Karimnagar district, of Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh, India.It is located in the north-east of the district near the border with Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh...

 forest in north Telangana

Telangana

Telangana is a region in the present state of Andhra Pradesh, India and formerly was part of Hyderabad state which was ruled by Nizam. It is bordered with the states of Maharashtra on the north and north-west, Karnataka on the west, Chattisgarh on the north-east and Orissa to the east...

 as commander of a guerrilla squad. Later his Party transferred him to Gadchiroli district until his arrest in 1992 in Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

 and seven-year imprisonment. After his release he returned to revolutionary work in Dandakaranya and then Andhra Pradesh. In 2005 he was elected to his party's Central Committee.

Sudhakar Reddy was reported to have been killed in an encounter with armed forces of the Indian state in Warangal district

Warangal district

Warangal District is located in the northern area in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The administrative seat is Warangal.Warangal District has an area of 12,846 km², and a population of 3,246,004 of which 19.20% was urban as of 2001...

 on May 23, 2009. The CPI(M) has alleged that this was a premeditated and staged murder by the state and that Sudhakar Reddy was arrested in Nashik and was tortured and killed in Warangal district.

External links

• On the murder of two CPI(M) comrades in Andhra Pradesh, A World to Win News Service, July 13, 2009
• Maoist top leader Sudhakara Reddy gunned down in encounter