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About T. Nagi Reddy
- Tarimela Nagi Reddy (11 February 1917 – 28 July 1976), often called "TN", was a communist politician from Andhra Pradesh, India.
- He was born in a wealthy family in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
- He completed his schooling from the Rishi Valley School India, founded by Andhra philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
- He would later study at Loyola College in Chennai and at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.
- During his student days, he got involved with nationalism and Marxism.
- His political activities got him jailed in 1940, 1941 and 1946.
- He revolted against his father who was a landlord and donated his land of over 1000 acres to landless labourers. Reddy was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly as a Communist Party of India candidate in 1951 from Anantaptur.
- He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anantapur in 1957.
- In 1962 he was elected to the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly as a Communist Party of India candidate from Puttur.
- In 1967 he was again elected to the assembly, now as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) candidate from Anantapur.
- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, a two-time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the sixth President of India, was Nagi Reddy's brother-in-law. In 1968, T.N.
- Reddy broke with the CPI(M) and formed the Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (APCCCR).
- He succeeded in attracting a large part of the CPI(M) cadre to APCCCR.
- During a brief period APCCCR was part of All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR).
- Reddy was however very critical of the left adventurist line of Charu Majumdar.
- Instead, he wanted to promote a mass line.
- Thus, Reddy and the APCCCR were expelled from the AICCCR. In 1975, Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) was formed through the merger of the APCCCR with three other smaller groups.
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- Reddy worked as a leader of APCCCR until his death in 1976.
- His most famous work is India Mortgaged.
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