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'''Vennelakanti Raghavaiah''' [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]], [[Bachelor of Laws|B.L.]] (June 1897 – 24 November 1981) was a social worker and Indian freedom activist.<ref>Raghavaiah Vennelakanti, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part II, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 466-467.</ref> He was affectionately called "Girijan Gandhi" for his service to the [[Adivasi]] people.<br />
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He is born at Singapeta village in [[Kovur, Nellore|Kovur]] Taluq of [[Nellore district]] to Vennelakanti Papayya and Subbamma. He completed [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Bachelor of Laws]] degrees from [[Madras University]]. He joined the [[Indian National Congress]] led by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and participated in the [[Non-cooperation movement (1919–22)|Non-cooperation movement]] and [[Salt Satyagraha]], and was jailed for 21 months. He was again arrested for participating in [[Quit India movement]].<br />
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He was elected to the Combined Madras State from the Nellore constituency for two terms. He held the position of parliamentary secretary in 1946 headed by [[Tanguturi Prakasam]]. During his tenure, he fought for the scrapping of the [[Criminal Tribes Act]] of 1871.<br />
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He received [[Padma Bhushan]] from Government of India in 1973.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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