Background
He was born to Shri Venkatappaiah in Toorpupalem village near Repalle in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.
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Makineni Basavapunnaiah
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Education
He studied in his village, Repalle and Machilipatnam. He was graduated from Andhra Christian College, Guntur in 1936.
Career
He was also the editor of the central organ of Consumer price index (M), People"s Democracy magazine. Makineni Basavapunnaiah was influenced by the upsurge in the Indian Independence Movement in the early 1930s. He grew increasingly disillusioned by the policies of the then Congress leadership.
In 1934 he joined the Communist Party of India.
Within the Communist Party of India (Consumer price index), he began working as a district level activist in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. In 1943 he was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee of the Consumer price index and its secretariat.
He participated in the Telangana Rebellion. At the Second Congress of the Consumer price index in 1948, he was elected to the Central Committee of the party.
In June 1950, was inducted into the party politburo.
He was one among the four member Indian Communist delegation who met Joseph Stalin clandestinely in 1950 to receive his advise on whether to continue the Telangana Rebellion or not. In 1957, he represented the Consumer price index at the international conference of communist parties in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He died in New Delhi in 1992.
Membership
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for 14 years from 3 April 1952 to 2 April 1966. When the Consumer price index was divided into two in 1964 as a result of Sino-Soviet split of International Caommunist Movement, he became a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the splinter group of the Communist Party of India.
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Communist Party of India (Marxist