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'''Sheik Abdul Rawoof''' (1924 – 9 February 2014) was an Indian [[communist]] leader from [[Andhra Pradesh]]. He was known by the [[nom de guerre]] "Viswam" or by his initials "SAR".<ref name=mart/> He was a senior cadre of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)]] in Andhra Pradesh, and, as an ideological hardliner, went on to lead his faction after the CPI(ML) disintegrated. He served as the secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari]] from 1998 to 2006. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with different criminal cases and spent a total of 12 years in jail.<ref name=nax>{{cite news|author=Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI|date=20 February 2014|title=In Memory of Comrade S. A. Rawoof}}</ref>

==Youth==
Born in 1924, Rawoof hailed from a middle-class Muslim family in Kutagulla village, [[Kadiri taluk]], [[Anantapur district]], in present-day Andhra Pradesh.<ref name=jyothi1/><ref name=bth/><ref name=sakh1/><ref name=sakh2>{{cite news|url=http://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/as-rawoof-no-more-104732https://web.archive.org/web/20201130231931/https://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/comrade-sheikh-abdul-rauf-death-anniversary-story-1262107|newspaper=Sakshi|date=9 February 2020|title=అలుపెరుగని ఉద్యమ గురువు రవూఫ్‌|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203654/http://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/as-rawoof-no-more-104732https://web.archive.org/web/20201130231931/https://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/comrade-sheikh-abdul-rauf-death-anniversary-story-1262107 |archive-date=6 March 2016 }}</ref> He attended Kadiri High School and later obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Anantapur College.<ref name=sakh1/><ref name=jyothi1>{{cite news|url=https://www.andhrajyothy.com/2024/editorial/communist-rauf-in-memory-of-kadiri-seema-1208588.html|title= కదిరి సీమ స్మృతిలో కమ్యూనిస్టు రవూఫ్‌|date=9 February 2024|newspaper=Andhra Jyothi}}</ref> During his college years, he became a sympathiser of the [[Communist Party of India]], influenced by the [[Telangana Rebellion|Telangana armed struggle]],<ref name=mart/>  and subsequently became a party member.<ref name=mart/>

Rawoof worked as a teacher at Kadiri Vemana Board School for a period.<ref name="sakh1">{{cite news|url=http://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/as-rawoof-no-more-104732|newspaper=Sakshi|date=11 February 2014|title=కొదమ సింహం లేదిక..|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203654/http://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/as-rawoof-no-more-104732 |archive-date=6 March 2016 }}</ref> He studied law in [[Madanapalle]], [[Chittoor district]], and obtained his law degree in 1964.<ref name="jyothi1" /> He initially worked as an assistant to a lawyer in Madanapalle<ref name="jyothi1" /> before practising law in Anantapur district.<ref name="bth" /><ref name="kba">Balagopal, K. ''[http://www.jstor.org/stable/4375902 Incarceration of S A Rauf: Right to Life vs Security of State]''. ''Economic and Political Weekly'', vol. 21, no. 29, 1986, pp. 1249–5</ref>

==Party leader in Kadiri taluk==
Rawoof contested local elections and became the first communist municipal chairman of Kadiri.<ref name=mart/> As municipal chairman, one of his first actions was to cancel the housing tax for poor and middle-class residents.<ref name=mart/><ref name=sakh2/> He worked closely with local communist leader [[Nawab Mayana Nizam Vali|Nizamvali]].<ref name=jyothi1/>

During the [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India]], Rawoof sided with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (CPI(M)).<ref name="mart" /> As a local leader of the CPI, and later the CPI(M), he was involved in mass organisation work in the Kadiri taluk area.<ref name="mart" /> In 1965, he was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act.<ref name="mart" /> Among his fellow prisoners at the Secunderabad District Jail were state-level CPI(M) leaders in Andhra Pradesh, such as [[T. Nagi Reddy]] and [[Chandra Pulla Reddy]].<ref name="mart" /> They conducted political classes in the jail, which included critiques of the CPI(M)'s political line.<ref name="mart" /> While at Secunderabad District Jail, Rawoof, who until then had been a local-level leader, was exposed to political struggles beyond his home region.<ref name="mart" />

Rawoof stood as the CPI(M) candidate for the [[Kadiri Assembly constituency|Kadiri constituency]] in the [[1967 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]]. He finished second in the constituency, securing 9,138 votes (21.20%).<ref name="sakh2" /><ref>Election Commission of India. ''[https://ceotelangana.nic.in/Archives/StasticalReports/StatRep_AP_1967.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ANDHRA PRADESH]''</ref>

==Naxalbari uprising==
As the CPI(M) was undergoing internal divisions, the Kadiri party unit was dissolved, and its cadres joined [[T. Nagi Reddy]]'s [[Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries]] (APCCCR) en masse.<ref name=mart/> Around this time, Rawoof met two [[Rayalaseema]]-level leaders, Mahadevan and C. K. Narayana Reddy, who informed him that T. Nagi Reddy was rejecting [[Charu Mazumdar]]'s line on issues such as armed struggle, election boycotts, and underground party organisation. They advised Rawoof to organise his group independently, which he, along with others, began to do.<ref name=mart/> In February 1969, the APCCCR was expelled from the [[All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries]] (AICCCR).<ref name=mart/> Rawoof was invited to the 28 February 1969 [[Guttikonda Bilam]] meeting, at which the new Andhra Pradesh AICCCR unit was to be organised, but was unable to attend.<ref name=mart/>

He attended a state-level meeting of the AICCCR in [[Visakhapatnam]] from 14 to 16 May 1969 as a special invitee.<ref name=mart/> Rawoof subsequently joined the AICCCR and became a member of its Andhra Pradesh State Committee.<ref name=bth/> Shortly thereafter, he was arrested and detained in Visakhapatnam Jail under the Preventive Detention Act.<ref name=mart/> While in jail, he met [[Adibhatla Kailasam]], [[Nagbhushan Patnaik]], Dr. Mallik, and several [[Girijan]] revolutionaries from the [[Srikakulam peasant uprising|Srikakulam armed struggle]].<ref name=mart/> He was released after a few days.<ref name=mart/>

Rawoof participated in the founding of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)]] (CPI(ML)) on 22 April 1969.<ref name=bth/> Following party instructions, he abandoned his legal career.<ref name=bth/><ref name=nax/> Later in 1969, CPI(ML) Andhra Pradesh State Secretary Chaudhuri Tejeswar Rao convened a meeting of cadres from Anantapur district, presenting the experiences of the [[Naxalbari uprising]], Mazumdar's positions, and instructions to organise armed squads and initiate militant actions in the area. Preparations were made for actions in the Erramala region, but the plan was suspended. In early January 1970, Mahadevan convened the Rayalaseema Regional Committee of the party, which finalised plans for armed actions in Anantapur, Nellore, and Chittoor districts. On 17 January 1970, around forty cadres participated in the attacks. Following these events, Rawoof and six others went underground.<ref name=mart/>

He attended the CPI(ML) Andhra Pradesh state conference in Mysore from 28 March to 2 April 1970, where he was elected to the nine-member State Committee of the party.<ref name=bth/><ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/> Rawoof was elected as a delegate to the CPI(ML) party congress scheduled to be held in Calcutta on 16 May 1970 but was unable to attend due to logistical constraints.<ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/>

Rawoof was one of four people to attend a CPI(ML) Central Committee meeting in Calcutta in June 1972, alongside Charu Mazumdar, fellow Andhra Pradesh leader K. G. Sathyamurthy, and Jagjit Singh Sohal from Punjab.<ref name=dbo/><ref>Sumanta Banerjee. ''[https://books.google.at/books?id=IRgeAAAAMAAJ India's Simmering Revolution: The Naxalite Uprising]''. Zed Books, 1984. p. 204</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.at/books?id=vaDaAAAAMAAJThe Naxalites Through the Eyes of the Police: Select Notifications from the Calcutta Police Gazette, 1967-1975]''. Dey's Publishing, 2007. p. 188</ref><ref name=aksa/> Years later, Rawoof recalled that Mazumdar had expressed self-criticism, referring to the critique from the [[Communist Party of China]] on the slogan "China's Chairman is Our Chairman" and the policy of annihilations.<ref name=dbo/><ref name=aksa>Amiya K. Samanta. ''[https://books.google.at/books?id=aAw7AAAAMAAJLeft Extremist Movement in West Bengal: An Experiment in Armed Agrarian Struggle]''. Firma KLM, 1984. p. 239</ref>

Following the arrest and death of Mazumdar, the CPI(ML) disintegrated. Rawoof aligned himself with the [[Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)]] (COC, CPI(ML)), and served as a member of its Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee (state committee).<ref name=bth/><ref name=crya>Chinna Rao Yagati. ''[https://books.google.at/books?id=XefsAAAAMAAJ Perspectives on Economic Development and Social Change: Essays in Honour of Professor K.S. Chalam]''. Rawat Publications, 2009. pp. 254-255</ref>

==Jail==
In March 1973, Rawoof travelled to West Bengal with another person to establish contact with cadres who supported the Mazumdar line.<ref name=mart/> On the night of their arrival, they were arrested at their hotel in [[Howrah]].<ref name=mart/> After spending ten days in police custody, Rawoof was transferred to a jail in Andhra Pradesh.<ref name=mart/>

While imprisoned, COC, CPI(ML) leader [[Kondapalli Seetharamaiah]] wrote a self-critical report in 1974, calling for greater attention to mass organisations and mass movements. The report provoked strong reactions among other revolutionary prisoners, some of whom broke away from the party. Although Rawoof was critical of Seetharamaiah's position, he remained in the party at that time.<ref name="mart" />

Following his conviction and life sentence in the Parvathipuram conspiracy case, Rawoof was sent back to West Bengal to face trial in the Alipore conspiracy case (also known historically as the Alipur conspiracy case), along with [[Kanu Sanyal]] and [[Souren Bose]].<ref name="mart" /> He was imprisoned in the [[Alipore Central Jail|Presidency Jail]], often kept alone in a single cell.<ref name="mart" /><ref name="dbo">{{cite web|author=Deepayan Bose|title=Naxalbari and Subsequent Four Decades: A Retrospection|url=https://anvilmag.in/archives/558|work=The Anvil|date=March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913041808/https://anvilmag.in/archives/558 |archive-date=13 September 2024 }}</ref> After the [[Emergency]] ended, he was moved to a barrack where he stayed with other imprisoned revolutionaries.<ref name="mart" />

At a court hearing in Calcutta, held after the [[1977 Indian general election]], Rawoof reaffirmed his loyalty to Mazumdar, argued against expecting change under the new government in Delhi, and called for the continuation of the armed struggle.<ref name="mart" /> Following the [[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]], the [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] state government withdrew cases against Naxalites, including the Alipore conspiracy case against Rawoof.<ref name="mart" /> He was then transferred to the [[Rajahmundry Central Prison]], and later to the Secunderabad Jail at his own request.<ref name="mart" />

==APROC==
In 1976, the Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee broke away from the COC, CPI(ML).<ref name="Committee1982">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Central Reorganization Committee|title=Towards a New Phase of Spring Thunder: Evaluation of the CPI(ML) in Its Historical Background|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_R8mAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Central Reorganization Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)|pages=137–138}}</ref> In 1977, after a period of reflection, Rawoof parted ways with the organisation in opposition to the new tactical orientation outlined in its "August Resolution", which called for a temporary suspension of armed struggle.<ref name=mart/><ref name=bth/><ref name=crya/> Kondapalli Seetharamaiah argued that such a suspension was necessary in light of the opportunities that had arisen after the withdrawal of the Emergency.<ref name=nax/> Rawoof described the August Resolution as "revisionist" and attempted to contact Seetharamaiah from jail to present his views.<ref name=nax/><ref name=crya/> Revolutionary prisoners were divided between supporters and opponents of the Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee.<ref name=mart/>

After breaking with the Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee, Rawoof formed his own party in Andhra Pradesh, the Andhra Pradesh Reorganising Committee, CPI(ML) (APROC).<ref name="mart" /><ref name="bth" /><ref name="nax" /> APROC denounced the new leadership of the Communist Party of China under [[Deng Xiaoping]], the [[Three Worlds Theory]], and the line of the [[Party of Labour of Albania]].<ref name="mart" /> It reaffirmed the "Charu Mazumdar proletarian revolutionary line", advocated the boycott of elections, and organised armed activities in Nalgonda and Warangal districts.<ref name="mart" /> An APROC armed forest squad operated in Warangal district.<ref name="mart" />

==CRC, CPI(ML)==
While in jail, Rawoof read copies of the publication ''Mass Line'' issued from Kerala.<ref name=mart/> He instructed cadres to meet the Kerala group led by [[K. Venu (Kerala)|K. Venu]] and K. N. Ramachandran.<ref name=mart/> In 1979, Rawoof's Andhra Pradesh Reorganising Committee, CPI(ML) (APROC) and K. Venu's CPI(ML) Kerala State Committee merged to form the Reorganisation Committee, CPI(ML), which was later renamed the [[Central Reorganisation Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)]] (CRC, CPI(ML)).<ref name=bth/><ref name=crya/><ref name=ncan/> The central leadership consisted of K. Venu, K. N. Ramachandran, and Rawoof.<ref name=mart/><ref name=bth/>

Rawoof organised student movements under the name [[Radical Students Union]], youth movements, peasant movements, and armed struggle activities.<ref name="mart" /><ref name="crya" /><ref name="nax" /> His group carried out attacks on police stations and landlords.<ref name="mart" /><ref name="crya" /> The organisation's geographic influence expanded to Khammam, Karimnagar, Adilabad, Anantapur, and Nellore districts.<ref name="mart" /> An armed forest squad operated in the Asifabad area of [[Adilabad district]].<ref name="mart" /> The CRC, CPI(ML) became known for "some notoriously brutal and sensational killings".<ref name="ncan">N. C. Asthana, Anjali Nirmal. ''[https://books.google.at/books?id=9YDaAAAAMAAJ Terrorism, Insurgencies, and Counterinsurgency Operations]''. Pointer Publishers, 2001. p. 180</ref> Rawoof's group was targeted by state forces and suffered heavy losses.<ref name="crya" /> Within a few years, around 40 members of APROC/CRC, CPI(ML) were killed, and the organisation was considerably weakened.<ref name="mart" />

Rawoof disagreed with the tactical line adopted by the All India Conference of CRC, CPI(ML), held in January 1982 in Maharashtra.<ref name="mart" /> Following the conference, he wrote an article in ''Mass Line'' titled "Dare to think, dare to struggle", advocating the development of armed struggle.<ref name="mart" /> The CRC, CPI(ML) leadership adopted the slogan "Fight against dogmatism and fight against secretism", moving away from armed struggle and underground party organisation.<ref name="mart" /> The Kerala State Committee of CRC, CPI(ML) later adopted an analysis that class relations in India had changed, that feudalism no longer constituted the social base of imperialism, and that capitalist development was taking place in the country.<ref name="mart" /> Rawoof opposed these positions within the CRC, CPI(ML).<ref name="mart" />

==Imprisoned again==
Rawoof was arrested by police in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] on 10 March 1983.<ref name=kba/> He was detained at [[Warangal Central Jail]], charged in three cases related to crimes committed in [[Warangal district]] in 1981: conspiracy to commit the murder of Narayana Reddy of Upparigudem in Mahbubabad taluk; conspiracy to commit the murder of another Narayana Reddy from Odedu in Chityal taluk; and a criminal case under the Explosive Substances Act.<ref name=kba/> The latter case concerned an incident in Wardhannapet taluk, when a clandestine meeting led by Rawoof was raided by police forces, and the participants threw bombs at the police while fleeing.<ref name=kba/>

Rawoof was released on bail in the three Warangal cases on 4 December 1983.<ref name=kba/> However, police awaited him outside the jail gates and immediately detained him. He was served a National Security Act warrant dated 5 December 1983.<ref name=kba/> Moreover, on 3 December 1983, a day before his release on bail, Rawoof and 21 others were sentenced to life imprisonment in the case concerning the murder of Narayana Reddy of Upparigudem.<ref name=kba/> Following a prisoners' protest at Warangal Central Jail, Rawoof was transferred as punishment to [[Visakhapatnam Central Prison]].<ref name=kba/>

Ahead of a 1985 CRC, CPI(ML) plenum, Rawoof authored a document from jail outlining his critiques against the emerging line of the party. The Andhra Pradesh State Committee approved the document, but it was rejected by the plenum.<ref name=mart/> Instead, the marathon plenum discarded the 1970 CPI(ML) line as outdated and emphasised the importance of national struggles.<ref name=mart/> The Andhra Pradesh delegation left the plenum in protest and broke away from CRC, CPI(ML).<ref name=mart/> Rawoof renounced his affiliation with the CRC, CPI(ML) in opposition to the organisation's new political line.<ref name=nax/> The Andhra Pradesh group continued armed activities after the split.<ref name=mart/>

On 3 April 1986, the High Court acquitted Rawoof and 12 others in the case concerning the murder of Narayana Reddy of Upparigudem.<ref name=kba/> By then, Rawoof had already been acquitted in the two other Warangal cases.<ref name=kba/> However, before his release, on 4 April 1986, Warangal police appeared at Visakhapatnam Central Prison with a court warrant for another murder case.<ref name=kba/> According to the warrant, Rawoof had conspired with visitors at Warangal Central Jail to commit a murder in Regondla in Parkal taluk in August 1985.<ref name=kba/> The police returned Rawoof to Warangal Central Jail.<ref name=kba/> He was granted bail by the court on 27 May 1986.<ref name=kba/> He would be imprisoned again in another case.<ref name=mart/>

By the late 1980s, Rawoof's group in Andhra Pradesh was largely defunct, with many of its cadres either imprisoned or killed.<ref name="mart" />

==CPI(ML) Red Flag==
In 1987–1988, the CRC, CPI(ML) experienced a split, with a significant section of the party in Kerala under the leadership of K. N. Ramachandran forming the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Flag]].<ref name=crya/><ref name=mart/> After some hesitation and following persuasion by CPI(ML) Red Flag cadres from West Bengal and [[Madhya Pradesh]], Rawoof joined the CPI(ML) Red Flag in late 1989, as it upheld the 1970 CPI(ML) programme.<ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/> He remained a member of its Central Committee until 1998.<ref name=bth/>

A [[Telugu language]] mass journal of the party, ''Erupu'' ('Red'), was launched as the organ of the Andhra Pradesh party unit. The journal advocated the Charu Mazumdar line, promoting armed struggle and election boycott.<ref name="mart" /> Armed activities continued in Anantapur and Nellore districts, as well as in Telangana, during which 12 party members were killed.<ref name="mart" />

In 1996, the entire membership of the CPI(ML) Red Flag Andhra Pradesh State Committee and its armed squad were killed in an encounter, bringing the party to near collapse in the state.<ref name="mart" /> At the CPI(ML) Red Flag fourth All India conference held in Kerala in 1997, the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh delegations found themselves in the minority during debates on the party’s political line.<ref name="mart" />

==CPI(ML) Naxalbari==
Rawoof was expelled from CPI(ML) Red Flag on 1 October 1998.<ref name=mart/> He then organised a new party, the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari]], based on the Andhra Pradesh and [[Karnataka]] state units of CPI(ML) Red Flag.<ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/> CPI(ML) Naxalbari established contact with the Maoist Unity Centre, CPI(ML) (the remnants of the former CRC, CPI(ML)), which subsequently merged into CPI(ML) Naxalbari in 1999.<ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/> Rawoof served as the secretary of CPI(ML) Naxalbari.<ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/>

==Later years==
Rawoof resigned from his position as secretary of CPI(ML) Naxalbari in 2006.<ref name=mart/><ref name=nax/> Kannamballi Murali ('Ajith') succeeded him as party secretary.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/murali-tallest-among-kerala-maoists/articleshow/45980509.cms|title=Murali tallest among Kerala Maoists|newspaper=Times of India|date=22 January 2015|author=M P Prashanth}}</ref><ref name=mkda>{{cite web|author=Mrinal Kanta Das|title=Maoists: Southern Incursions|url=https://www.satp.org/south-asia-intelligence-review-Volume-12-No-45|work=South Asia Intelligence Review|date=12 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031094207/https://www.satp.org/south-asia-intelligence-review-Volume-12-No-45 |archive-date=31 October 2019 }}</ref>

Rawoof never married.<ref name=sakh2/> He spent his later years living in a simple hut in Kutagulla village.<ref name=sakh2/> In old age, he suffered from ill health and spent several years in hospital towards the end of his life.<ref name=mart/>

He died at a hospital in [[Bengaluru]] on 9 February 2014, aged 89.<ref name=mart>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20161112215137/http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Cadre/CC-MartyrsLifeHistories-Book-Eng-140921.pdf Comrade S A Rawoof's Life was One of Continuous Struggle for the Cause of Revolution]'', in ''ADVANCING THE REVOLUTION WITH GREAT SACRIFICES - MARTYRED CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF CPI(MAOIST)'', Central Committee - Communist Party of India (Maoist). pp. 188-200</ref><ref name=bth>Communist Party of India (Maoist) Central Committee. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830074805/https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Statements-2014/140301-CC-CondolenceStmtOnComSA-Rauf-Eng.pdf Condolence Message of CC, CPI (Maoist) on the demise of Comrade S.A. Rauf, a leader of Indian Revolution]''</ref><ref name=sakh1/> His body was kept for public viewing for two days at the Kutagulla Municipal School.<ref name=mart/><ref name=sakh1/> Thousands of people paid their respects before his funeral.<ref name=mart/><ref name=sakh1/> [[Manda Krishna Madiga]], founder president of the Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti ([[Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti|MRPS]]), who knew Rawoof from Warangal Jail, visited the wake to pay tribute and offered a red cloth.<ref name=sakh1/> Rawoof was cremated in Kutagulla.<ref name=sakh2/> Reportedly, funeral attendees included poets [[Varavara Rao]] and [[Gaddar]], MLA [[Bhumana Karunakar Reddy]], and MLC [[Jupudi Prabhakar Rao]].<ref name=sakh1/>

==Memorial==
A memorial monument dedicated to S. A. Rawoof was erected in Kutagulla by the S. A. Rawoof Memorial Trust.<ref name=sakh2/><ref name=jyothi1/> It was inaugurated by the Trust's president, Vadlamudi Krishna Rao, on 9 February 2015.<ref name=jyothi1/> Annual commemorations are held at the monument on Rawoof's death anniversary, 9 February, organised by the S. A. Rawoof Memorial Trust.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Andhra Jyothi|url=https://www.andhrajyothy.com/2022/andhra-pradesh/ananthapuram/a-solid-tribute-to-the-revolutionary-raoufngtsandhrapradesh-603017.html/amp|title=విప్లవనేత రవూఫ్‌కు ఘన నివాళి|date=10 February 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://telugu.getlokalapp.com/andhra-news/sri-sathya-sai/kadiri/kadiri-s-a-raoof-s-death-anniversary-celebrated-with-grandeur-14417330|title=కదిరి: ఘనంగా ఎస్ ఏ రావూఫ్ వర్ధంతి వేడుకలు|work=Lokal|date=9 February 2025}}</ref> A colony located along the Kadiri-Kutagulla Anantapur National Highway has been named after him.<ref name=sakh2/>

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