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Kolla Venkaiah (1910-1998)

1910	Born as the first child of Kolla Krishnaiah and Ratthamma in Pedanandipadu village, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

1921-2	Participated in Indian National Movement by taking active part in non-cooperation movement against tax collection in Pedanandipadu. Carried struggles against untouchability and caste-discrimination.

1934	Participated in the All India Congress Sessions, Bombay, as a national delegate.

1936	Joined Communist Party of India. Founded associations for peasants/farmers and agricultural laborers to fight for their rights.

1937	Attended the Kothapatnam Political School. British Police lathi-charged him mercilessly while he was attending the classes.

1938	Took part in the famous “Rytu Yatra” (peasant rally) from Itchapuram to Madras.

1940	Secretary, Guntur District Agricultural Laborers Association.

1943	Jailed for violating the prohibitory orders. While in jail, he started politically educating the other prisoners. Elected as President, Guntur District Rytu Sangham (peasants/famers association) and also as Secretary, Guntur Town Unit of Communist Party of India.

1944	First Chairman of Guntur District Tobacco Growers Market Yard.

1947	State Secretary, Andhra State Rytu Sangham.

1948	Secretary, Guntur District Communist Party of India.

1948-51Spent underground life avoiding police arrest in the wake of Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle.

1952	Elected as MLA to the then Madras State Assembly from Ponnur constituency.

1957	Elected as MLC from local bodies constituency.

1962	Elected as Member of Parliament (MP) from Tenali Constituency.

1962	Incarcerated in the wake of India-China border clashes.

1967	Resigns as MP in support of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Agitation.

1970	Implicated and jailed under Parvatipuram Conspiracy Case related to the Srikakulam Peasants Armed Revolt.

1975	Incarcerated under preventive custody during the emergency period.

1977	Founded “Nallamada Region Rytu Sangham.”

1980	Founded “Grameena Pedala Sangham” (Association of Rural Poor).

1991	Obtains crucial judgment in the Supreme Court of India in favor of implementation of land reforms.

1998	Strives relentlessly till the end to build movements to fight for the rights of peasant and agricultural labor and unite various groups of communist revolutionaries on the basis of Marxism-Leninism-Mao ZeDong’s Thought.