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			{{Short description\|Indian poet and activist (born 1949)}}
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	== Telangana movement ==		== Telangana movement ==
	[[File:Gaddar protest.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar protests against arrest of [[Varavara Rao]]- 2005]]		<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Gaddar protest.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar protests against arrest of [[Varavara Rao]]- 2005]] -->

	With the resurgence of [[Telangana movement]], Gadar expressed his support for the cause of a separate [[Telangana]] state and those people who were advocating it with the intention of uplifting the lower castes, particularly dalits and also backward castes. He said he was strongly with those who are for a Telangana of social justice where Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes have political representation on par with the OCs and BCs of the state. He expressed his solidarity with [[Devender Goud]]'s NTPP (Nava Telangana Praja Party) in spite of being shot at by the police during Goud's term as AP Home Minister.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|title=Fight forces opposing separate Telangana, says Gadar \|work=The Hindu \|date=18 January 2008 \|url-status=usurped \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327140143/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|archivedate=2008-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|title=Telangana minus Hyderabad unimaginable: Gadar \|date=20 January 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123101121/http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|title=Smaller States viable, say leaders \|date=5 February 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209113137/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-02-09}}</ref>		With the resurgence of [[Telangana movement]], Gadar expressed his support for the cause of a separate [[Telangana]] state and those people who were advocating it with the intention of uplifting the lower castes, particularly dalits and also backward castes. He said he was strongly with those who are for a Telangana of social justice where Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes have political representation on par with the OCs and BCs of the state. He expressed his solidarity with [[Devender Goud]]'s NTPP (Nava Telangana Praja Party) in spite of being shot at by the police during Goud's term as AP Home Minister.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|title=Fight forces opposing separate Telangana, says Gadar \|work=The Hindu \|date=18 January 2008 \|url-status=usurped \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327140143/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|archivedate=2008-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|title=Telangana minus Hyderabad unimaginable: Gadar \|date=20 January 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123101121/http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|title=Smaller States viable, say leaders \|date=5 February 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209113137/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-02-09}}</ref>

	[[File:Gaddar performs in Kolkata.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar performing in [[Kolkata]] in 2010 against the [[Operation Green Hunt]] ]]		[[File:Gaddar performs in Kolkata.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar performing in [[Kolkata]] in 2010 against the [[Operation Green Hunt]] ]]

			== Music ==
			{{Incomplete list\|date=October 2022}}
			{\| class="wikitable sortable"
			\|-
			\|'''Year'''
			\|'''Movie'''
			\|'''Song'''
			\|'''Lyricist'''
			\|'''Language'''
			\|'''Ref.'''
			\|-
			\|1979
			\|[[Maa Bhoomi]]
			\|Bandenaka Bandi Katti
			\|Bandi Yadagiri
			\|Telugu
			\|<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Krishnamoorthy \|first1=Suresh \|title=Maa Bhoomi will forever be alive in people’s minds \|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/maa-bhoomi-will-forever-be-alive-in-peoples-minds/article7025857.ece \|website=The Hindu \|language=en-IN \|date=23 March 2015}}</ref>
			\|-
			\|2011
			\|[[Jai Bolo Telangana]]
			\|Podustunna Poddumeeda
			\|Himself
			\|Telugu
			\|<ref>{{cite web \|title=Telangana Formation Day 2021: Folk Songs that Ignited Passion During Statehood Movement \|url=https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/telangana-formation-day-2021-folk-songs-that-ignited-passion-during-statehood-movement-3801434.html \|website=News18 \|language=en \|date=2 June 2021}}</ref>
			\|-
			\|}


	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
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	~~[[Category:Ambedkarites]]~~
	[[Category:Poets from Telangana]]		[[Category:Poets from Telangana]]
	[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]		[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
	[[Category:Indian Marxists]]		[[Category:Indian Marxists]]

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	\| birth_date = {{birth year and age\|1949}}		\| birth_date = {{birth year and age\|1949}}
	\| birth_place = [[Toopran]], [[Hyderabad State]], India (now in [[Telangana]])		\| birth_place = [[Toopran]], [[Hyderabad State]], India<br />{{small\|(now in [[Telangana]])}}
	\| residence = [[Hyderabad]], Telangana, India		\| residence = [[Hyderabad]], Telangana, India
	\| alma_mater = [[Osmania University]]		\| alma_mater = [[Osmania University]]
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	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
	'''[[Nandi Awards]]''':		'''[[Nandi Awards]]''':
			*1995: [[Nandi Award for Best Lyricist]] for "Malletheega Ku Pandiri Vole" from ''[[Orey Rikshaw]]'' (turned down)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|date=2020-11-09 \|title=''Orey Rikshaw'' completes 25 years; Lesser-known facts about the R Narayana Murthy starrer \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/orey-rikshaw-completes-25-years-lesser-known-facts-about-the-r-narayana-murthy-starrer/articleshow/79125968.cms \|access-date= \|website=The Times of India}}</ref>
	* 2011 - [[Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer]] for ''[[Jai Bolo Telangana]]''		* 2011 - [[Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer]] for ''[[Jai Bolo Telangana]]''

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	== External links ==		== External links ==
	*[http://www.telanganastateinfo.com/gaddar-asked-to-people-part-in-mission-kakatiya Gaddar asked to people part in Mission Kakatiya]		*[http://www.telanganastateinfo.com/gaddar-asked-to-people-part-in-mission-kakatiya Gaddar asked to people part in Mission Kakatiya] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710001803/http://www.telanganastateinfo.com/gaddar-asked-to-people-part-in-mission-kakatiya \|date=10 July 2017 }}
	* https://web.archive.org/web/20120131021928/http://www.newswala.com/Hyderabad-News/Amalapurams-arrests-an-eye-wash-alleges-Gadar-8629.html		* https://web.archive.org/web/20120131021928/http://www.newswala.com/Hyderabad-News/Amalapurams-arrests-an-eye-wash-alleges-Gadar-8629.html

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	Gaddar went underground in the 1980s and became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War]]. He was part of its cultural wing and performed in from of the crowds. He has a bullet in spine as a result of a failed assassination in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Rebel balladeer Gaddar backs Congress\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/rebel-balladeer-gaddar-backs-congress/cid/1671726\|access-date=2021-01-03\|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref>		Gaddar went underground in the 1980s and became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War]]. He was part of its cultural wing and performed in from of the crowds. He has a bullet in spine as a result of a failed assassination in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Rebel balladeer Gaddar backs Congress\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/rebel-balladeer-gaddar-backs-congress/cid/1671726\|access-date=2021-01-03\|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref>

	After being active in the Naxal movement till 2010, Gaddar later identified himself as an [[Ambedkarite]].<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Swamy\|first=Rohini\|date=2018-12-04\|title=In Telangana, Naxal poet Gaddar embraces the ballot & old foes to fight 'fundamentalists'\|url=https://theprint.in/politics/in-telangana-naxal-poet-gaddar-embraces-the-ballot-old-foes-to-fight-fundamentalists/157909/\|access-date=2021-01-03\|website=ThePrint\|language=en-US}}</ref> He adopted the name ''Gaddar'' as a tribute to the pre-independence [[Gadar party]] which opposed [[British Raj\|British colonial rule]] in [[Punjab region\|Punjab]] during the ~~1910s~~.		After being active in the Naxal movement till 2010, Gaddar later identified himself as an [[Ambedkarite]].<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Swamy\|first=Rohini\|date=2018-12-04\|title=In Telangana, Naxal poet Gaddar embraces the ballot & old foes to fight 'fundamentalists'\|url=https://theprint.in/politics/in-telangana-naxal-poet-gaddar-embraces-the-ballot-old-foes-to-fight-fundamentalists/157909/\|access-date=2021-01-03\|website=ThePrint\|language=en-US}}</ref> He adopted the name ''Gaddar'' as a tribute to the pre-independence [[Gadar party]] which opposed [[British Raj\|British colonial rule]] in [[Punjab region\|Punjab]] during the 1911
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	== Telangana movement ==		== Telangana movement ==
	[[File:Gaddar protest.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar protests against arrest of [[Varavara Rao]]- 2005]]		[[File:Gaddar protest.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar protests against arrest of [[Varavara Rao]]- 2005]]

	With the resurgence of [[Telangana movement]], Gadar expressed his support for the cause of a separate [[Telangana]] state and those people who were advocating it with the intention of uplifting the lower castes, particularly dalits and also backward castes. He said he was strongly with those who are for a Telangana of social justice where Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes have political representation on par with the OCs and BCs of the state. He expressed his solidarity with [[Devender Goud]]'s NTPP (Nava Telangana Praja Party) in spite of being shot at by the police during Goud's term as AP Home Minister.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|title=Fight forces opposing separate Telangana, says Gadar \|work=The Hindu \|date=18 January 2008 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327140143/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|archivedate=2008-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|title=Telangana minus Hyderabad unimaginable: Gadar \|date=20 January 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123101121/http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|title=Smaller States viable, say leaders \|date=5 February 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209113137/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-02-09}}</ref>		With the resurgence of [[Telangana movement]], Gadar expressed his support for the cause of a separate [[Telangana]] state and those people who were advocating it with the intention of uplifting the lower castes, particularly dalits and also backward castes. He said he was strongly with those who are for a Telangana of social justice where Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes have political representation on par with the OCs and BCs of the state. He expressed his solidarity with [[Devender Goud]]'s NTPP (Nava Telangana Praja Party) in spite of being shot at by the police during Goud's term as AP Home Minister.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|title=Fight forces opposing separate Telangana, says Gadar \|work=The Hindu \|date=18 January 2008 \|url-status=usurped \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327140143/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm \|archivedate=2008-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|title=Telangana minus Hyderabad unimaginable: Gadar \|date=20 January 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123101121/http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|title=Smaller States viable, say leaders \|date=5 February 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209113137/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|archivedate=2008-02-09}}</ref>

	[[File:Gaddar performs in Kolkata.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar performing in [[Kolkata]] in 2010 against the [[Operation Green Hunt]] ]]		[[File:Gaddar performs in Kolkata.jpg\|thumb\|Gaddar performing in [[Kolkata]] in 2010 against the [[Operation Green Hunt]] ]]
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{{Infobox Indian politician
| name = Gaddar
| image = Gaddaar.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Gaddar in a meeting in Nizam College Grounds- 2005
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949}}
| birth_place = [[Toopran]], [[Hyderabad State]], India (now in [[Telangana]])
| residence = [[Hyderabad]], Telangana, India
| alma_mater = [[Osmania University]]
| party = [[Telangana Praja Front]]
| spouse = Vimala Gaddar
}}
'''Gummadi Vittal Rao''' (born 1949), popularly known as '''Gaddar''', is an Indian poet, revolutionary [[Ballads|balladeer]], activist and a former [[naxalite]]. Gaddar was active in the [[Naxalite movement]] till 2010, and later joined [[Telangana movement|the movement]] for [[Telangana]]'s statehood.

== Early life ==
Gaddar went underground in the 1980s and became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War]]. He was part of its cultural wing and performed in from of the crowds. He has a bullet in spine as a result of a failed assassination in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rebel balladeer Gaddar backs Congress|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/rebel-balladeer-gaddar-backs-congress/cid/1671726|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref>

After being active in the Naxal movement till 2010, Gaddar later identified himself as an [[Ambedkarite]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Swamy|first=Rohini|date=2018-12-04|title=In Telangana, Naxal poet Gaddar embraces the ballot & old foes to fight 'fundamentalists'|url=https://theprint.in/politics/in-telangana-naxal-poet-gaddar-embraces-the-ballot-old-foes-to-fight-fundamentalists/157909/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref> He adopted the name ''Gaddar'' as a tribute to the pre-independence [[Gadar party]] which opposed [[British Raj|British colonial rule]] in [[Punjab region|Punjab]] during the 1910s.

== Telangana movement ==
[[File:Gaddar protest.jpg|thumb|Gaddar protests against arrest of [[Varavara Rao]]- 2005]]

With the resurgence of [[Telangana movement]], Gadar expressed his support for the cause of a separate [[Telangana]] state and those people who were advocating it with the intention of uplifting the lower castes, particularly dalits and also backward castes. He said he was strongly with those who are for a Telangana of social justice where Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes have political representation on par with the OCs and BCs of the state. He expressed his solidarity with [[Devender Goud]]'s NTPP (Nava Telangana Praja Party) in spite of being shot at by the police during Goud's term as AP Home Minister.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm |title=Fight forces opposing separate Telangana, says Gadar |work=The Hindu |date=18 January 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327140143/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/01/18/stories/2008011851710300.htm |archivedate=2008-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm |title=Telangana minus Hyderabad unimaginable: Gadar |date=20 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123101121/http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/20/stories/2008012058190600.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |archivedate=2008-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm |title=Smaller States viable, say leaders |date=5 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209113137/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020558860400.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |archivedate=2008-02-09}}</ref>

[[File:Gaddar performs in Kolkata.jpg|thumb|Gaddar performing in [[Kolkata]] in 2010 against the [[Operation Green Hunt]] ]]

== Awards ==
'''[[Nandi Awards]]''':
* 2011 - [[Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer]] for ''[[Jai Bolo Telangana]]''

== See also ==
*[[Telangana Praja Front]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.telanganastateinfo.com/gaddar-asked-to-people-part-in-mission-kakatiya Gaddar asked to people part in Mission Kakatiya]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120131021928/http://www.newswala.com/Hyderabad-News/Amalapurams-arrests-an-eye-wash-alleges-Gadar-8629.html

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