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In this Telugu name, the surname is Paritala.

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Paritala Ravindra

Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

 In office

1994 – 24 January 2005

 N. T. Rama Rao
Chief Minister
 N. Chandrababu Naidu

 Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy

Constituency Penukonda

Personal details

Born 30 August 1958

Venkatapuram, Anantapur district, India

Died 24 January 2005 (aged 46)

Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Manner of death Assassination

Political party Telugu Desam Party

Spouse Paritala Sunitha

Children 3

Occupation Politician

Paritala Ravindra (30 August 1958 – 24 January 2005), better known as Paritala
Ravi, was a politician from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.[1] He was a cabinet
minister in Andhra Pradesh and a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He
was assassinated by his political rivals in 2005. He started as a communist and later
entered electoral politics by joining the Telugu Desam Party. He was elected five
times as an MLA from the Penukonda constituency in Anantapur district, Andhra
Pradesh.

Early life[edit]
Paritala Ravi's father, Paritala Sreeramulu, was a Naxalite leader and was close
to Kondapalli Seetharamaiah of the then-monolithic People’s War Group. In 1975,
Gangula Narayana Reddy, a factionist, Congress MLA and Sane Chenna Reddy,
another factionist, killed Sreeramulu.[2] He was seventeen years old when his father
was killed. He, along with his brother, Paritala Hari, escaped the attack.

After losing his father and brother, Ravi wanted to take shelter from his rivals. He
went to his maternal uncle, Kondaiah, in Seerpi Kottaala village
of Uravakonda Constituency to take shelter. He married his uncle's
daughter Sunitha in 1986 and took up cultivation. He had three children.[3] He was
one of the accused in the murder of Gangula Narayana Reddy, Narsanna and Yaadi
Reddy.[4]

Faction and Politics[edit]

After Narayana Reddy was killed, Ramachandra Reddy of the Telugu Desam
Party became MLA from Penukonda in 1983 and 1985. In the 1989 elections, the
Congress formed the government in the state. Sane Chenna Reddy became MLA of
Penukonda by defeating Ramachandra Reddy of the TDP. Ravi wanted to avenge
the deaths of his father and brother. He allied himself with Communist Party of India
(Marxist–Leninist) People's War (PWG) who were ready to help Ravi and so plotted
against Chenna Reddy.[5] Sane Chenna Reddy, who was conspirator in his father's
and brother's deaths was killed in Dharmavaram in 1991. By-elections were
conducted and Ramana Reddy, son of Chenna Reddy, became MLA in 1991.

Paritala Ravindra was accused in the murder of 7 of Maddela Cheruvu Suri's family
members (including women and children) in 1995 via a TV bomb. Ravi allegedly
planned the bomb to kill Suri, but Suri escaped.[1][6]

Maddelacheruvu Suri tried to take vengeance by triggering a remote-controlled car

bomb in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, in 1997, but missed his target. After his death, his
wife Paritala Sunitha became M.L.A from his assembly constituency Penugonda.[7][5]

Death and post death reaction[edit]

On 24 January 2005, hired killers detonated bombs near the Telugu Desam Party
(TDP) party office and shot Ravindra. He died instantly.[8]

On 9 November 2008, Joolakanti Srinivas Reddy was assassinated in the Anantapur

jail. The main person accused in the case, Maddelacheruvu Suri (Gangula Surya
Narayana Reddy), was murdered by his aide Bhanu Kiran on 4 January 2011 in
Hyderabad for property disputes. On 18 December 2018 Telangana High Court had
sentenced him to life. The court delivered the verdict after examining 133 witnesses,
including Paritala's father-in-law Kondanna. The court has convicted 8 accused -
Hanumantha Reddy, Peddi Reddy, O.B. Reddy, Vadde Konda, Vadde Srinivasulu,
Rekamayya, Narayana Reddy and Ranganayakulu - and the approver was
Rammohan Reddy. 4 accused - G B Reddy, Anand Reddy (Rice Mama),
Ramaswamy and Patola Govardhan Reddy - have been acquitted.[9]

See also[edit]
 Rakta Charitra
 List of assassinated Indian politicians