Patel Sudhakar Reddy
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Patel Sudhakar Reddy | |
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| Occupation | Maoist guerrilla |
| Organization | CPI (Maoist) |
Patel Sudhakar Reddy, aliases Suryam, Damodar, and Venkatesh, (1950s – 24 May 2009)[1] was a leader of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Reddy was born in Kurthiravulacheruvu village in Mahbubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (now in Telangana). Reddy joined the Radical Students Union in Gadwal area in 1981. He passed engineering with a gold medal from Osmania University.[1] Later he joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War which later became the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Politics
In 1983, Sudhakar Reddy moved to the Eturnagaram-Mahadevpur forest in north Telangana as commander of a guerrilla squad.[citation needed] Later his Party transferred him to Gadchiroli district until his arrest in 1992 in Bangalore and seven-year imprisonment.[citation needed] After his release in 1998 he returned to Naxalism in Dandakaranya and then Andhra Pradesh.[citation needed] In 2005 he was elected to his party's Central Committee as well as central military commission.[1]
Andhra Pradesh Police accused Reddy of being involved in several major crimes including the murders of Home Minister Alimineti Madhava Reddy, Greyhounds founder K. S. Vyas, IPS officer Umesh Chandra, and the attempted murder of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu at Tirupati in 2003. He was also accused in the Balimela reservoir boat attack which killed 38 people.[2]