Patel Sudhakar Reddy

Patel Sudhakar Reddy, aliases Suryam, Damodar, and Venkatesh, (1950s – 24 May 2009)''' 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. Later his Party transferred him to Gadchiroli district until his arrest in 1992 in Bangalore and seven-year imprisonment. After his release in 1998 he returned to Naxalism in Dandakaranya and then Andhra Pradesh. In 2005 he was elected to his party's Central Committee as well as central military commission.

Death Sudhakar Reddy was killed during a combing operation by Andhra Police in Warangal district on 24 May 2009. Another senior Maoist leader Venkataiah, a district committee member of the Warangal unit, was also killed in the encounter.

The CPI (Maoist) alleged that the encounter was staged by the police and that Sudhakar Reddy was arrested near the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border and shot dead in Warangal.