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'''Patel Sudhakar Reddy,'''  aliases '''Suryam, Damodar,''' and '''Venkatesh,''' (1950s – 24 May 2009)'''<ref name=":0" />''' was a leader of the central committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]].  

Reddy was born in Kurthiravulacheruvu village in [[Mahabubnagar district|Mahbubnagar district]], [[Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)|Andhra Pradesh]] (now in [[Telangana]]). Reddy joined the [[Radical Students Union]] in [[Gadwal]] area in 1981. He passed engineering with a gold medal from [[Osmania University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/naidu-attack-maoist-killed-in-forest/cid/625455|title=Naidu-attack Maoist killed in forest|last=Radhakrishna|first=G. S.|date=24 May 2009|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=India|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref> Later he joined the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War]] which later became the Communist Party of India (Maoist).  

In 1983, Sudhakar Reddy moved to the [[Eturnagaram]]-[[Mahadevpur]] forest in north [[Telangana]] as commander of a guerrilla squad.{{cn|date=November 2021}} Later his Party transferred him to Gadchiroli district until his arrest in 1992 in [[Bangalore]] and seven-year imprisonment.{{cn|date=November 2021}} After his release in 1998 he returned to Naxalism in [[Dandakaranya]] and then Andhra Pradesh.{{cn|date=November 2021}} In 2005 he was elected to his party's Central Committee as well as central military commission.<ref name=":0" />

[[Andhra Pradesh Police]] accused Reddy of being involved in several major crimes including the murders of Home Minister [[Alimineti Madhava Reddy]],  [[Greyhounds (police)|Greyhounds]] founder [[K. S. Vyas]], IPS officer Umesh Chandra, and the attempted murder of Chief Minister [[N. Chandrababu Naidu]] at [[Tirupati]] in 2003. He was also accused in the [[Balimela reservoir boat attack]] which killed 38 people.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Top Naxal Leader Killed in Encounter in Andhra|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/top-naxal-leader-killed-in-encounter-in-andhra/660343|access-date=2021-11-20|website=https://www.outlookindia.com/}}</ref>