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|name =L. B. G. Rao<br />
|birth_name =Lavu Bala Gangadhara Rao<br />
|birth_date =August 3, 1921<br />
|occupation =politician<br />
|death_date ={{death date and age|2003|3|28|1921|8|3}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Lavu Balagangadhara Rao''' (3 August 1921 – 28 March 2003) was an Indian politician.<ref name="pd"/><ref>''Times of India''. ''[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Veteran-CPM-leader-dead/articleshow/41707190.cms Veteran CPM leader dead]''</ref> He served as the Secretary of the [[Andhra Pradesh]] State Committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] between May 1985 and November 1991.<ref name="pd">''People's Democracy''. ''[http://archives.peoplesdemocracy.in/2003/0406/04062003_lbg_life.htm A LIFE OF SACRIFICES]''</ref><br />
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L.B.G. Rao was the son of Lavu Subrahmanyam. He studied at the [[Andhra-Christian College]] in [[Guntur]]. In 1938, during his student days, he joined the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name="pd"/> In 1942 he became a CPI whole-timer.<ref name="pd2"/> He went underground and was active in the [[Telangana armed struggle]]. He led various guerrilla squads, acting as the Amarabad party secretary.<ref name="pd"/><ref name="Sharma2003">{{cite book|author=I. Mallikarjuna Sharma|title=In Retrospect: West India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tx1uAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Ravi Sasi Enterprises|isbn=978-81-88151-01-1|page=373}}</ref> He got married in 1947, whilst being underground.<ref name="pd"/> In total he would go underground five times in his life, spanning a period of over eleven years.<ref name="pd2"/> He was also jailed three times, and spent two and a half years in prison.<ref name="pd"/><br />
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L.B.G. Rao was fielded as the CPI candidate in [[1954 Duggirala by-election|a by-election for the Duggirala seat]] in the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] in June 1954. He finished in second place with 20,644 votes (42.5% of the votes in the constituency).<ref name="e">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls Bye-election results 1952-95]''</ref><ref name="FisherBondurant1956">{{cite book|author1=Margaret Welpley Fisher|author2=Joan Valérie Bondurant|title=The Indian experience with democratic elections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wg82AAAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=University of California|page=4}}</ref><br />
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After the split in the CPI, L.B.G. Rao sided with the CPI(M). He became a [[Central Committee]] member of CPI(M).<ref name="pd"/> As of 1979 he served as the secretary of the State Agricultural Labourers Union.<ref name="Council1979">{{cite book|author=Andhra Pradesh (India). Legislature. Legislative Council|title=Debates; Official Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8MIAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|page=235}}</ref> He also served as president of the [[All India Agricultural Workers Union]].<ref name="pd2">''People's Democracy''. ''[http://archives.peoplesdemocracy.in/2003/0406/04062003_lbg_pb_stmn.htm Comrade L B Gangadhara Rao]''</ref> L.B.G. Rao stood as the CPI(M) candidate for the [[Tenali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tenali seat]] in the [[1980 Indian general election]]. He finished in second place, with 144,457 votes (32.70%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1980 TO THE SEVENTH LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |date=18 July 2014 }}''</ref> In 1989 he was included in the [[Polit Bureau]] of the party.<ref name="pd"/> Due to old age, he retired from the Polit Bureau in 1998.<ref name="pd2"/><br />
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