N. V. Krishnaiah

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N V Krishnaiah
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
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Biography

NVK was born in 1930 in Yataluru village, Venkatagiri mandal, Nellore district. He completed high school in Venkatagiri and then moved to Nellore to join V.R. College. At V.R. College he joined the students movement and later became a member of the Communist Party in 1952.

He then returned to Venkatagiri and began to work in the peasant front of the party. In 1957 he shifted his activities to Nellore and became a trade union organizer amongst motor workers. In both cases he led militant campaigns and came into conflicts with landlords and private bus company owners.

When the Communist Party of India was divided, NVK sided with the leftist tendency. He became the secretary of the Nellore town committee and a member of the Nellore district committee of the new party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In 1964 he was elected to the Municipal Corporation of Nellore.

NVK contested the 1967

Jan Sangh candidate M. R. Annadata.[1]

At the same time, the CPI(M) in Andhra Pradesh faced another split. Large sections of the regional party cadres began to condemn the CPI(M) leadership as 'neo-revisionist'. Led by

. NVK joined the APCCCR, and as a consequence he later resigned from his position as a municipal councillor.

NVK was one of the accused in the Hyderabad Conspiracy Case. During the period of 1968-1978, he was frequently jailed, and spent over five years in imprisonment. When the APCCCR was divided in 1971, NVK sided with the

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)

After being released from jail in 1978, he became involved in trade union activities. He became the president of the Indian Federation of Trade Unions. In 1980 he sided with C.P. Reddy, who broke away and formed his own CPI(ML).

In the 1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, NVK contested the

independent. He won with 26430 votes (29.84%).[2] During his legislative tenure, he raised over 2500 questions in the assembly.[3] One of the issues he highlighted was the need for irrigation in the Karimnagar
area.

Following the 1994 Legislative Assembly election, CPI(ML) Janashakti was divided. NVK became the leader of a break-away group, the

Central Committee
member of the unified CPI(ML).

NVK died on 13 September 2006.[4]

References

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