Career
He was one of the prominent leaders in the Telangana armed struggle against the Nizam regime. He belonged to the more militant sector in the Andhra Maha Sabha, that deplored the non-confrontational policies of the leadership of the organization. Yella Reddy took part in the 1938 satyagrah.
He was amongst those jailed during the protest campaign.
In 1939 the Communist Party of India established its organization in the Hyderabad State, Baddam Yella Reddy worked closely with Doctorate.V. Rao and Raavi Narayana Reddy in building grassroot networks of the party in the region. From 1941 Yella Reddy"s communist group came to dominate the Andhra Maha Sabha.
Yella Reddy became the general secretary of the Andhra Maha Sabha. Under Yella Reddy"s leadership the Andhra Maha Sabha moved from being a liberal organization into a militant anti-Nizam united front.
Yella Reddy was one of the key leaders of the Telangana armed struggle.
As the Nizam declared Hyderabad as an independent state in September 1947 Baddam Yella Reddy was one of the signatories of a joint declaration of the Communist Party, Andhra Maha Sabha and the All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress calling for armed struggle against the Nizam"s rule and for the integration of Hyderabad in the Indian Union (Yella Reddy signed on behalf of the Andhra Maha Sabha). The Telangana rebellion was one of the largest armed peasant uprisings in modern India, which lasted until 1951. In the first parliamentary elections in independent India Yella Reddy was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1951 from Karimnagar as a People"s Democratic Front candidate, defeating the Indian National Congress candidate P.V. Narasimha Rao (who later became the Prime Minister of India).
As Consumer price index went through a major split in 1964, Baddam Yella Reddy joined the dissident Communist Party of India (Marxist).
He was the sole prominent Consumer price index leader in Karimnagar district to do southern However, he only stayed in the Consumer price index(M) for three months before returning to Consumer price index.
In 2006, in connection with Yella Reddy"s birth centenary celebrations the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy inaugurated a bronze statue of Yella Reddy in Karimnagar.
At the ceremony the Chief Minister also vowed to realize the provision of additional ayacut through the completion of irrigation projects in the Karimnagar district, a longstanding dream of Yella Reddy.
