Paritala Ravindra gari History

........One thing to  mention ,i never think Ravi anna

as a factionist ...but it is given in  this .Sorry if
any one hurt.....   
  
             Paritala  Ravindra Chowdary was one of
the most adored and equally hated fuedal  lords of
Rayalaseema region in Andhra Pradesh. He was elected
as M.L.A  for five times from Penukonda constituency
in Anantapur district. He  was slain by his political
rivals in 2005 because of a vandetta. He was  one of
the most controversial persons in the history of
Andhra Pradesh  politics. A 1998 report prepared by
the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties  Committee on
Paritala Ravi, a former naxalite, says: "The entire 
district kneels down before him. Everyone is afraid of
him. From 1994,  even the political scenario (in
Anantapur district) has undergone a  change". 
    Family background:  Ravi's father Paritala
SriRamulu:   Paritala Ravindra was born on 28-5-1957
in Venkatapuram village of  Nasanakota panchayati
(Ramagiri mandal, Penukonda constituency,  Anantapur
district).His father was SriRamulu (12-4-1935 to
29-11-1982).  Even though his father was a landlord of
300 acres, he was inspired by  the Marxist ideology.
He donated most of his land to the poor. He also  lead
the poor and the oppressed (Boya, Kuruba, Eediga
castes) in  fighting for their rights over the land
(sivaijaama Bhoomulu) occupied  by landlords of
kanaganapalli and chennekothapalli, namely Gangula 
Narayana Reddy and Sane Chenna Reddy. He managed to
distribute around  600 acres of land belonging to
these landlords and their supporters  among the poor.
He joined C.P.I(M.L) party in 1971. He became top most
leader of the Naxal movement in Andhra Pradesh. He
didnt kill  anyone.(Refer to Eenadu News
Paper(Anantapur edition) dated 25-1-2005  and Sunday
magazine of Eenadu
newspaper dated 
   6-2-2005 for more information about beginning of
vandetta and the land struggle).
    This land struggle turned into a vandetta and
caste struggle  when he was killed on 29-5-1975 by his
own follower. This follower took  money from Gangula
and Sane. He was going to attend a marriage in 
Baksampalli. The bus stopped near Baksampalli cross.
He stepped down  from the bus and immediately he was
killed by that person. Gangula  Narayana Reddy and
Sane Chenna Reddy were the conspirators. 
     
    Ravi's younger brother Paritala Hari:  Paritala
Hari was  younger brother of Paritala Ravi. He was
born on 10-7-1960. After his  father was killed by
Gangula, he lead poor and oppressed. He joined  Naxal
movement in 1979. He managed to distribute some land
ocupied by  the same landlords. He became a powerful
Naxalite. He lead the Naxals  in killng Saayanna. They
(Naxals) never killed any children or women. 
    On 28-11-1982 Hari was killed by the police
inspector named  Kabir in a fake encounter. Hari was
there in his house in Venkatapuram.  Police came to
know this. They immediately went to Venkatapuram. Hari
was not able to escape from the police, so he was
hiding in the house  all the doors closed. Police
caught his sister and threatened Hari that  they would
rape his sister if he didnt come out of the house. So
Hari  finally came out of the house. He was taken to
Nasanakota village which  is 2 Km away from
Venkatapuram. There he was shot by inspector Kabir 
infront of hundreds of villagers. Again Gangula
Narayana Reddy, Gangula  Narsanna, Sane Chenna Reddy
were the conspirators. 
     
    Early life of Ravi:
     
    As he lost his father and brother in the vandetta,
he wanted to  take safe shelter to protect his life
from his family rivals. His  family rivals were after
him after killing his brother. Paritala Ravi  once
said that he walked barefoot for somedays during those
days when  he was trying to save his life from his
rivals. He went to his mother's  brother, Kondaiah, in
SeerpiKottaala village of Uravakonda constituency  to
take shelter. Their he married Paritala Suneetha, his
cousin in  1986. He took up cultivation at that time. 
    He never was a naxalite. Many P.W.G leaders,
Maoist party  leaders, Virasam leader VaraVara Rao,
Gaddar said this many times. He  participated in the
faction politics from 1991 and not before that.
    It is Congress propaganda that he was the
conspirator in killing  Gangula Narayana Reddy,
Narsanna and Yaadi Reddy during 1982-83. On the 
contrary it was not he but it was Naxalites who killed
them. This is  again said by many Naxal leaders. 
    Naxals who were fed up of the attrocities
committed by Gangula  Narayana Reddy, his followers
Chenna Reddy, Narsanna, Yaadi Reddy  wanted to kill
them. They also wanted to take revenge of the killings
of their party leaders SriRamulu and Hari. First
persons to be killed  were Narsanna and Yaadi Reddy.
They never killed women and kids even  that time. Then
it was Narayana Reddy's turn in 1983. Narayana Reddy 
was in Anantapur in a lodge on 1-6-1983. He was
brutally hacked down by  the P.W.G. Naxals escaped
from there immediately.
    Naturally everyone's fingers pointed to Ravindra.
But he was not  at all involved in the murder. He was
not even a conspirator. Later  P.W.G leaders said
this.
     
    Ravi's entry in to factionism:
     
    After Narayana Reddy was killed, Ramachandra Reddy
of Telugu  desam party became M.L.A from Penukonda in
1983 and 1985. Even though  he became M.L.A Penukonda
was never peaceful. Chenna Reddy, his sons  Ramana
Reddy and Obul Reddy, Gangula Surya Narayana Reddy
(son of  Narayana Reddy) and many of their thugs
committed many attrocities.  Surya Narayana Reddy and
Obul Reddy raped many women in their own  houses
infront of the parents of the women. Some T.D.P
activists were  killed during that time.
    In 1989 election, congress formed the govt in the
state. Sane  Chenna Reddy became M.L.A of Penukonda by
defeating Ramachandra Reddy  of T.D.P. From there on
attrocities committed by his sons Ramana Reddy  and
Obul Reddy, Gangula Surya Narayana Reddy incresed.
There was a  womens college near the house of Chenna
Reddy. It is said that during  the time of 1989 to
1993 the strength of the womens college came down  to
ground levels, a stage in which the college had to be
closed down.  Women were afraid to come out of their
houses in Dharmavaram because of  the fear that they
would be raped by Obul Reddy. 
        
     Obul Reddy raped many women and school going
girls. Women  includes married women of age 45 or
less. For instance, he once raped  wife of an engineer
in Dharmavaram which became an issue. He raped two 
women from Tamil Nadu who came to Dharmavaram for
livelyhood. He even  raped wives of his followers
also. He once raped daughter of Dr.  Kullayappa who
was congress member. 
  
    He was a sadist. He once killed a person by
throwing him on the  railway track under a moving
train. He killed Muskeen, a T.D.P  activist, by
cutting a kilogram of muscle from his body everyday.
He  once drilled bore (Rigs) in the stomach of a
person. There are many  other instances in which he
raped many. To sum up these are only few  cases. 
      
     On the other had Surya Narayana Reddy raped some
women. He  once raped a women belonging to Kuruba
(Kurava) caste infront of her  father and mother in
Maddelacheruvu. He raped a goverment employee in 
Maddelacheruvu. 
      
     In 1990 Chenna Reddy and Surya Narayana Reddy
gangs killed  Paathapaalyam village committee leader,
Boya Venkata Ramudu who was  close to Paritala
Ravindra's family. They also killed Vepakunta village 
secretary, Vaaraadappa. After killing them they burnt
their bodies with  diesel. 
      
     Chenna Reddy and Surya Narayana Reddy abducted
Nemalivaram  village sarpanch, Subbaraayudu and killed
him in Kanagaanapalli and  thrown him into thorn
bushes and burnt him. 
      
     In 1994 they killed Narayanappa in Rayadurgam who
was a  close associate of Nanji Reddy. Nanji Reddy was
close associate of  Paritala Ravindra. 
      
     Boya Naagaraju, Tagarakunta village sarpanch and
close  associate of Ravindra, was killed in a bomb
blast on Republic day, when  he was unfurling the
flag. This was done by Surya Narayana Reddy for  the
sake of Tagarakunta Konda Reddy, a close associate of
him. 
      
     As mentioned above Muskeen of Dharmavaram was
also killed. These are only some examples. 
    Paritala Ravindra wanted to take revenge of his
father's and  brother's death. He awaited right time.
He joined hands with Naxals in  1991. Even Naxals
wanted to help Ravi as his father and brother were 
their party leaders. Sane Chenna Reddy who was
conspirator in his  father's and brother's death was
killed in his house in Dharmavaram in  1991. Chenna
Reddy was sitting on a chair, reading news paper.Three
naxals wearing police uniform came to him, saluted
and shot him.
    Byelections were conducted. Ramana Reddy, son of
Chenna Reddy  got congress ticket and Gaade Lingappa
got TDP ticket. Heavy rigging  took place in favour of
Ramana Reddy. Four TDP activists were killed by 
Ramana Reddy and Obul Reddy's thugs. Gaade Lingappa
was defeated and  Ramana Reddy became M.L.A in 1991.
After he became M.L.A, their  attrocities increased
two fold.
     
    Re-organising Committee (R.O.C):  .W.G expelled
Kondapalli  Seetha Ramaiah from the party. He split
P.W.G in to two. One is P.W KS  group. Potula Suresh
who shot Chenna Reddy was an active member of this 
group. After T.V bomb blast, this group was agian
split in to two. One  was Redstar and other was
Re-Organising committee (ROC). Potula Suresh  was head
of ROC and Sudarshan was head of Redstar. Redstar was
pro to  Chenna Reddy sons and Surya Narayana Reddy.
ROC worked for Paritala  Ravindra. There was gangwar
between these two groups. 
    ROC killed around 16 people, kidnapped around 13
people  belonging to Obul Reddy or Surya Narayana
Reddy. Congress spread  propaganda that Paritala
Ravindra was accused in 57 cases. Even DGP  said
this.But When challenged to show the police records
which proves  their claim, they failed to show any
records. When Paritala Ravindra  was killed, only 5
police cases were there in which his name was 
mentioned. 
     
    Paritala Ravindra's faction and political career:
     
    ROC acted as Ravi's pocket organisation. Potula
Suresh, Chaman,  Prabhakar, Madhusudhan Reddy etc
became henchmen of Paritala Ravindra.
    As mentioned above, Chenna Reddy was killed by
P.W.G. Paritala  Ravindra was the conspirator. After
this ROC was formed and every thing  is done by ROC on
behalf of Ravindra. In 1993, ROC planted a bomb in a 
Television of Surya Narayana Reddy to kill him as soon
as that is  switched on. But the attempt failed. The
explosion that resulted  brought down the house, and
killed four persons including his mother  and two
brothers, his sister and injured four others. Paritala
Ravi was  named Accused No.1 in the case. Surya
Narayana Reddy escaped and took  shelter in Karnataka.
There he married Bhanumati.
    Paritala came out of underground in 1993. He got
TDP ticket from  penukonda. Ramana Reddy fought on
congress ticket. one TDP activist was  killed and
large scale rigging was done by Ramana Reddy. But he
lost to  Paritala. Ravindra became labour minister in
NTR's govt in 1994. He  resigned as the minister and
M.L.A as he didnt like the involvement of  Lakshmi
Parvathi in the case of J.C.Prabhakar Reddy.
J.C.Prabhakar  Reddy, brother of J.C.Diwakar Reddy
wanted to join TDP. But Ravindra  didnt like this.
Prabhakar Reddy had the blessings of Lakshmi Parvathi 
wife of NTR which was against the wish of Anantapur
district's TDP  leaders. NTR later realising that
Paritala had not done any mistake,  gave ticket to him
to fight from Penukonda again in 1995. He won as 
M.L.A.
    He was on NTR's side during the coup in TDP in
1995. He resigned  from the NTR TDP after the death of
NTR and joined TDP. He fought  elections in 1996 on
TDP ticket from Penukonda on Ramana Reddy. Large 
scale rigging was done by Paritala Ravindra's
henchmen. No person was  killed or kidnapped during
the elcetions.(Refer to any news paper like  Eenadu,
Vaartha, Hindu etc). 
    ROC now eyed on Obul Reddy. In 1996 when Obul
Reddy along with  his three henchmen was in a lodge in
Hyderabad with a prostitute, he  was attacked by ROC.
He was taking bath. That prostitute was sent away 
from the room and the henchmen were hacked down. Then
they brought Obul  Reddy outside from bathroom. His
throat was slit almost completely and  his genitals
were cut down brutally. They escaped from there 
immediately.(Refer to any news paper like Eenadu,
Vaartha, Hindu etc).  Paritala Ravindra was the prime
accused. 
    Suri tried to take vengeance by triggering off a 
remote-controlled car bomb in Jubilee Hills,
Hyderabad, in 1997 but  missed his target, Paritala
Ravi, who was then producing a movie called 
Sriramulaiah based on his father's struggle against
landlords. 26  persons including Etv crew were killed
and 32 were injured in the bomb  blast. This blast was
first of it's kind in India and 2nd in the world. 
Bhanukota Kishtappa, P.Lakshma Reddy, two engineering
graduates from  Jonnala Kotha palli, Kuntimaddi Sri
Ramulu, Konda Reddy, Perugu  Venkatesulu and many more
were involved in this case. All these were  close
associates of Surya Narayana Reddy. Surya Narayana
Reddy was  later caught in Karnataka and was put in
Charlapalli jail. 
    ROC killed those two from Jonnala Kotha Palli in a
hotel in  Hyderabad. Bhanukota Kishtappa eludes the
police even now. Kuntimaddi  Sri Ramulu was killed by
ROC. Venkatesulu was also killed. Konda Reddy  who
killed Boya Naagaraju escaped narrowly in two attacks
on him.  Ramana Reddy brother of Obul Reddy was killed
in 1999 in Hyderabad in a  house. He was invited to a
party by one of his friends. There ROC group  entered
in the house and shot Ramana Reddy. 
    During 1999 elections, a weak candidate contested
on congress  ticket and Paritala on TDP ticket. From
jail, Soori contested on  general ricket. Rigging was
done by Paritala Ravindra's group. He won  with huge
majority. Soori didnt even get his deposits back. No
person  was killed or kidnapped during the
elcetions.(Refer to any news paper  like Eenadu,
Vaartha, Hindu etc). 
    Paritala used to participate in land settlements
in Bangalore  and Hyderabad. He used to acquire most
of the big contracts on his  name. ROC helped in all
these things. Most of the opponents used to  fear to
submit schedules in tenders without his assent. Many
persons  even though they didnt know Paritala Ravindra
personally, used the name  of Paritala Ravindra to get
many contracts on their names. 
    After 2000, not much of quarrels were there. Once
Soori planned  to blow up Ravindra's house in
Anantapur with the help of Y.S Jagan.  But the attempt
failed. A case was registered by the police on Y.S 
Jagan and Soori. Three henchmen of Paritala were
killed by Soori's gang  while they were travelling in
a car to Venkatapuram to attend Mass  Marriages
conducted by Paritala Ravindra. Many of Surya Narayana
Reddy  supporters and Obul Reddy supporters left their
villages as they were  afraid of Ravindra and ROC. In
2002 ROC's chief Potula Suresh came out  of
underground. Only settlements and fraud in contracts
took place  during this time. 
    In 2004 general elections Soori's wife Bhanumati
contested on  congress ticket. Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy
supported her. Paritala Ravindra  was threatened by
Naxals not to campaign for the elections. His rivals 
were also planning to kill him during campaigning. He
therefore had not  even come out of his village
Venkatapuram. Campaigning was done by his  wife
Suneetha and women from the constituency. His henchmen
like Suresh  and Chaman were arrested under Preventive
detention act to prevent  rigging. On the polling day
he and his men kidnapped and shot one of  the congress
activist. He didnt die. This became huge issue and
even  discussed in Assembly. After that incident he
was house arrested for  that whole day. Except that
incident that day was peaceful with  absolutely no
rigging.(Refer to any newspaper like Eenadu or Hindu).
Paritala Ravi won with 24,000 votes majority. 
     
    After 2004 elections, till his death:
     
    TDP lost power and congress formed govt in the
state. From the  day three of forming the govt, i.e
from May 14th onwards killing of TDP  activists
started in the Anantapur district. Paritala Ravindra's
life  was in danger. His security was decreased to 2+2
gunmen. He asked for  more security which govt
refused. He went to high court on this issue.  Court
issued orders to govt to provide 5+5 security. Govt
did that but  provided gunmen who were of age more
than 40 years and gave them very  old and damaged
guns. Paritala was not allowed to go in a large
convoy.  Only a group of 2 vehicles was allowed
showing the reasons that it  becomes difficult for the
people to go on roads. His houses in  Anantapur and
Venkatapuram were frequently raided by the police. 
      
     Paritala Ravi's follower and counsellor, Basha,
was killed  in Dharmavaram by Soori's gang in June
2004.   
     Another of Ravi's follower Adi Narayana, who was
Z.P.T.C member of Somandepalli, was killed.   
     Tagarakunta Prabhakar was also killed by Soori's
gang  which consisted of Julakanti Sreenivasa Reddy,
Damodar Reddy, Bhaskar  Reddy etc. Tagarakunta Konda
Reddy and Soori were the conspirators.  Prabhakar who
was entering his Sumo after having a shave was shot in
the car by Sreenivas Reddy. They escaped immediately
after that.  Prabhakar died immediately.   
     RK who was a follower of Paritala Ravindra was
killed in  Bellary by the same men when he came out of
house for a morning  walk.   
     They planned to kill Ravi if he comes to compaign
in  Byelections of Somandepalli Z.P.T.C. But Ravindra
didnt  campaign.   
     Anantapur DSP Narasimha Reddy was accused to be
involved  in the murders of Pavurala Krishna and his
brother in Anantapur. DSP  called them to police
station. When they were on the way to police  station
they were killed.   
     Soori was allowed to use cellphones in the
Charlapalli  jail. He used to operate everything from
the jail itself. He met  Joolakanti Sreenivas Reddy
and other prime accused in the jail itself  through
Mulakhaath. All the records of Milakhath were
manipulated by  the Jail Superintendent. Y.S Jagan
allegedly met him in the jail with  fake identities,
with the help of Charlapalli Jail  Superintendent.   
     Paritala Ravindra once accused Y.S Jagan that
Jagan was  trying to kill him. Jagan filed a case in
court of Pulivendula.  Paritala wanted to go there in
a large convoy. But only 2 vehicles were  allowed. 
      
     On 24-1-2005, after the party meeting in the TDP
office in  Anantapur, when he was coming out of the
office he was shot by  Joolakanti Sreenivasa Reddy,
Narayana Reddy, Rekhamayyah. Vadde Seena  and some
others also participated in the shooting. Paritala
died  instantaneously. His gunman Habib and Ravi's
follower were also killed.  Remaining gunmen who were
aged above 40 dropped guns on the shooters  orders.
Gangula Surya Narayana Reddy alias Soori, Tagarakunta
Konda  Reddy were conspirators. 
    Ravi is survived by his wife, two sons and one
daughter.
     
    After his death:
     
    TDP activists were very angry and they burnt many
buses and  caused damage to many buses. APSRTC was
incurred a heavy loss of around  Rs 60 crore. When
Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga was killed in 1989 in 
Vijayawada congress activists caused a loss of Rs 300
crore to APSRTC  (refer Frontline magazine dated Feb.
12 - 25, 2005). Many cases were  filed on TDP workers
and many were put in jail. 
    The shooters took shelter in bank employee
Rammohan Reddy.  Rekhamayyah surfaced before
Mahaboobnagar police after three days of  murder. Few
days later five persons who participated and helped in
attack surfaced in lawyer Adi Sesha Reddy house
infront of media. They  were Narayana Reddy, Obi
Reddy, Vadde Seena, Ranga nayakulu, Konda.  This case
was given to Central Bureau of Investigation. Police
and  C.B.I were not able to catch even one person of
the accused. Everyone  came out of their hideouts by
themselves. First Damodar Reddy was  caught because of
an accident. Joolakanti Sreenivas Reddy went to 
Coambattore via Cudapah and from there he went to
Delhi and lived there  with his family for sometime.
He gave an interview to a TV channel  saying that he
would surface himself before police after killing
Suresh  and Chaman. He was CBI's most wanted criminal
ny that time. He was in a  lodge in Hyderabad when a
blast took place because of which police  caught him.
CBI 
interrogated the case and
  dug out practically nothing. Soori was brought back
to Anantapur  central jail for interrogation. The case
is still going on in the  district magistrate court of
Anantapur.
    Congress made Bhanumati a scapegoat by not giving
a ticket to  her in the byelections. They asked TDP
not to give ticket to Paritala  family so that they
can stop factionism. Congress left out it's so  called
ideals during the period 1975 to 2004 and suddenly
they realised  the ideals after Ravi was killed.
Congress gave ticket to Boya Sree  Ramulu of Gutturu
village. On the nomination day of Suneetha, six TDP 
activists were killed in police firing. A police was
also killed. Cases  were filed on more than 2000 TDP
activists. Bindovers were carried  over. J.C Diwakar
Reddy who is minister carried on campaigning for Sri 
Ramulu. TV channels telecasted how he threatened TDP
activists not to  campaign for Suneetha. He threatened
that they will be put in jail in  the cases filed on
them on nomination day. Some congress workers were 
caught distributing money and liquor to the voters.
These were also  telecasted by the channels. Many
congress workers who left their  villages in Ravi's 
time came back
  to participate in elections. Sudhakar a TDP activist
was killed in  Dharmavaram before one month of
elections. Two days before elections  Kuruba
Aanjineyulu was killed by congress activists. Large
number of  police were employed as security on polling
day as everyone's eyes were  on the elections.
Elections went on very peacefully. Suneetha won with 
huge majority of 19,000 votes. 
     
    Development and Social service in Penukonda:
     
    (Refer to Eenadu News Paper,print
edition,(Anantapur edition) dated 25-1-2005).
      
     Ravi's family supply rice, wheat and barley to
around nine  villages of Nasanakota Panchayati. The
villagers are entirely dependent  on Ravi's family.   
     Anantapur district is famous for continuous
droughts. Poor  farmers cannot afford to marry their
daughters because of dowry and  high marriage
expenditure. So Ravi's family took up the 
responsibilities of their marriages. Around 360
marriages were  conducted.   
     He rebuilt the temple of Venkateswara in
Nasanakota  panchayati. He built community halls which
can be used by poor. Road  construction was carried
out by him on his own money in two villages.  He spent
around 4 crores to build temple and others.   
     As the area has dearth of drinking water, water
supplying  scheme was introduced by him in 44 villages
of his constituency. 11  crores was granted by the
govt and 3 crores was spent from his pocket.  Total of
14 crores was spent to supply drinking water.   
     Patolla Govardhana reddy (he was also accused in
the case,  Sreenivas Reddy was in his gang) also
accepted that Paritala and his  Family is Pro-Poor. 
    Former district collector of Anantapur, Somesh
Kumar once said  that he once visited Penukonda in
1991 during his training days. He  said that Penukonda
was very under developed during that time. He said 
that lot of development took place during Paritala
Ravi's time. 
      
     Govt Jr college was built in Roddam mandal during
his time.   
     Primary hospitals in more than 3 villages were
built during his time.   
     M.R.O office in Roddam was built in his time.   
     Road network was expanded to almost all villages
during his time
    (Refer to Eenadu News Paper,print
edition,(Anantapur edition) dated 25-1-2005).