Pinarayi condoles death of veteran CPI leader Sudhakar Reddy

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday condoled the death of former Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy. Reddy died in a Hyderabad hospital on Friday night after an illness.

In his condolence message, Mr. Vijayan said that Reddy had served as an outstanding parliamentarian. “His efforts to raise the voice of workers and ordinary people in Parliament were remarkable,” he said.

He was a gentle and widely respected Communist leader, the Chief Minister recalled. Reddy, 83, died at a private hospital here on Friday, party sources said.

Reddy, who was elected to the Lok Sabha twice, had served as general secretary of CPI during 2012-19. He was re-elected twice as the CPI general secretary after 2012 — at Puducherry Party Congress in 2015 and later at Kollam Party Congress in 2018.

Reddy, who belongs to Mahabubnagar district of Telangana, had played a key role in Left politics at the national level and in a number of people’s struggles.