Career
He participated in Telangana Rebellion along with Ravi Narayana Reddy, Dharma Bixam and joined the Consumer price index in 1950 and was elected as sarpanch of Shivanenigudem in 1959. After the split in the Consumer price index, he went with the CPM. Raghava Reddy was jailed was among the opposition leaders jailed by then Congress government during the emergency. He was elected as Modern Language Association of Nakrekal for six terms since 1967 elections.
As the floor leader of the party in Assembly, Raghava Reddy raised a range of public issues and fought for the welfare of toddy tappers, gram sevaks and weavers.
He died at the age of 92, in private Hospital at Narketpally on 9 April 2015.
