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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Uddaraju Ramam<br />
<!--|image = Uddaraju Ramam.png -->| constituency = [[Narasapuram]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament]]<br />
| term = 1957-62<br />
| predecessor = Addepally Satyanarayana Murthy<br />
| successor = Datla Balaramaraju<br />
| birthname = Uddaraju Ramam<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1912|01|20}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Valamarru Village]], [[Narasapuram]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]] {{small|(now [[Andhra State]])}} India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|11|27|1912|01|20|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], {{small|(now [[Telangana]])}} India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian citizen|Indian]]<br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<br />
| spouse = Uddaraju Manikyamba {{small|(1914 - 2007)}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Uddaraju Ramam''' (1912 in [[Narasapuram]] – 27 November 1994 in Ramamohan) was an Indian politician.<ref name="SabhaSecretariat1957">{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|author2=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha. Secretariat|title=Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7UeAQAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Lok Sabha|page=157}}</ref><ref name="Basu1998">{{cite book|author=Jyoti Basu|title=Documents of the Communist Movement in India, Vol. 25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqPaAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=National Book Agency|isbn=978-81-7626-039-8|page=170}}</ref><ref name="Sabha2003">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Indian Parliamentary Companion: Who's who of Members of Lok Sabha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLZVAAAAYAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=441}}</ref> He was a parliamentarian and a leader of peasants movement. He has three sons and two daughters.<br />
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==In the Indian National Congress==<br />
Ramam was the son of Peda Padmaraju. He studied at Vinayasraman in [[Guntur]]. At the age of 18, he joined the [[Indian National Congress]] and took part in the [[Salt Satyagraha]]. He went to [[Calcutta]] for the 1933 Congress session, and was jailed there. The following year, he became a member of the [[Congress Socialist Party]]. He went on to becoming president of the Narsapur Taluk Congress Committee and organising secretary of the District Congress Committee.<ref name="SabhaSecretariat1957"/><ref name="Murali2007">{{cite book|author=A. Murali|title=New themes in Indian history: art, politics, gender, environment, and culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwVuAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Black & White|isbn=978-81-89320-15-7|page=220}}</ref> Raman took part in building the [[Communist Party of India]] in [[West Godavari]]. He served as the secretary of the District Committee of the party between 1935 and 1951. In 1937 he became a member of the [[Pradesh Congress Committee|Provincial Congress Committee]].<ref name="SabhaSecretariat1957"/><br />
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==Parliamentarian==<br />
In 1952 he became a Secretariat member of the Andhra Provincial Committee of the Communist Party.<ref name="SabhaSecretariat1957"/> Ramam was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] (lower house of the [[parliament of India]]) in the [[1957 Indian general election|1957 general election]]. He stood as the CPI candidate in [[Narsapur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Narsapur constituency]], obtaining 134,119 votes (51.58% of the votes in the constituency).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1957 TO THE SECOND LOK SABHA &ndash; VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref><br />
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Ramam lost the Narsapur seat in the [[1962 Indian general election|1962 general election]]. He finished in second place with 167,209 votes (46%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1962/Vol_I_LS_62.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1962 TO THE THIRD LOK SABHA &ndash; VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref><br />
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==CPI(M) leader==<br />
When CPI went through a split, Ramam sided with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was a member of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee and its secretariat for many years, until he retired from political work due to old age.<ref name="Basu1998"/> He contested the [[1967 Indian general election|1967 general election]] as the CPI(M) candidate in Narsapur, finishing in second place with 148,721 votes (35.76%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1967 TO THE FOURTH LOK SABHA &ndash; VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref><br />
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In the [[1971 Indian general election|1971 general election]] he again finished in second place in Narsapur, with 92,601 votes (23.56%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1971 TO THE FIFTH LOK SABHA &ndash; VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref> Likewise, in the [[1977 Indian general election|1977 general election]] he finished in second place with 142,162 votes (30.84%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1977 TO THE SIXTH LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref> Again in the [[1980 Indian general election|1980 general election]] he finished in second place with 114,156 votes (25.82%).<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 &ndash; VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref><br />
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==Kisan sabha==<br />
He leader of the peasants movement, he served as an Executive Committee member of the Andhra Rashtra Ryots Sangham for a long period. In 1952 he became the treasurer of the organisation. He also served as secretary of the Sabari Project Ryots Association. He had collected and published lectures of Sir Arthur Cotton on the subject of Irrigation works in India namely Lectures on Irrigation works in India.<ref name="SabhaSecretariat1957"/> He served as president of the [[All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road)|All India Kisan Sabha]].<ref name="Basu1998"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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