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{{Infobox Indian politician
|name = Kamichetty Parasuram
|birth_name = Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprasada Rao Naidu
| image = 
| caption =
| birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1921|10|2}}
| birth_place =[[Yanaon]], [[French India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1989|1|19|1921|10|2}}
| residence =Yanam
| office1            = Member of [[Pondicherry Representative Assembly]]
| term_start1        = 1955
| term_end1          = 30 June 1963
| constituency1      = [[Yanam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Yanam]]
| predecessor1 = ''Position created''
| successor1 = ''Position abolished''
| office           = Member of [[French India Representative Assembly]]
| constituency      = [[Yanam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Yanam]]
| term_start       = 1946
| term_end         =  1951
| predecessor = ''Position created''
| successor = Canacala Tataya
| office2           = Deputy Speaker of [[Pondicherry Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start2       =  27 November 1963
| term_end2        = 24 August 1964
| predecessor2 = ''Position created''
| successor2 = [[Vanmeri Nadeyi Purushothaman]]
| term_start3      =  5 April 1972
| term_end3         = 2 January 1974
| predecessor3 = M.L.Selvaradjou
| successor3 = None{{refn|group=note|[[Fourth Assembly of Pondicherry]] didn't have any deputy speaker}}
| office4 = [[Speaker of Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start4 = 27 March 1985
| term_end4 = 19 January 1989
| predecessor4 = [[M.O.H. Farook]]
| successor4 = M. Chandirakasu
| office5            = Member of [[Pondicherry Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start5        = 1 July 1963
| term_end5          = 19 January 1989
| constituency5      = [[Yanam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Yanam]]
| predecessor5 = ''Position created''
| successor5 = Raksha Harikrishna
| party =[[Indian National Congress|Congress]]
| spouse =  [[Kamichetty Savithri]]
| children = 1 son}}

'''Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu''' (2 October 1921 – 19 January 1989) was a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]], India from 1964 until his death in 1989.
==Birth and family==
He was born in [[Yanam]], the son of Former Maire de [[Yanam Municipality|Yanaon]], [[Kamichetty Venugopala Rao Naidou]]. He married [[Kamichetty Savithri]]. He was an undisputed leader until his death in Yanam after his father.{{cn|date=February 2021}}

== Member of representative assembly==
He was member of representative assembly between 1946 and 1964 by winning elections in [[1946 French India Representative Assembly election|1946]],<ref>Journal Officiel des établissements français dans l'Inde, 1946.</ref> [[1955 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election|1955]] and [[1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election|1959]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100486|title=India, A Reference Annual 1956|page=494|work= Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|publisher=Publications Division|year=1956}}</ref> However, in [[1946 French India Representative Assembly election|1951]] elections he lost to Canacala Tataya.<ref>Journal Officiel des établissements français dans l'Inde, 1952.</ref>

== Member of legislative assembly==
He was never defeated throughout his political career. He held the constituency as his pocket borough without facing any challenge in winning the seat consecutively in 1964 ([[Indian National Congress|INC]]), 1969 ([[Independent (politician)|IND]]), 1974 ([[Independent (politician)|IND]]), 1977 ([[Janata Party|JP]]), 1980 ([[Independent (politician)|IND]]) and in 1985 (INC). As long as he was alive he contested without break from the first elections held in 1964 as per Representation of People Act for the territorial Assembly after [[de jure]] merger of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] with India.

He contested most of the time as an Independent and was deputy speaker twice.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8E3VAAAAMAAJ|title=India, A Reference Annual 1964|page=398|work= Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|publisher=Publications Division|year=1964}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=739DAAAAYAAJ|title=India, a Reference Annual, 1974|page=371|work= Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|publisher=Publications Division|year=1974}}</ref> Kamichetty became 10th [[Speaker of Puducherry Legislative Assembly]] after his elections in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/STATISTICAL/pondicherry.HTML|title = Union Territory of Pondicherry}}</ref> He died in office on 19 January 1989. He was the longest-serving Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the history of Puducherry Legislative Assembly until 1989.

==Titles held==
{{S-start}}
{{Succession box | before= N.A. | title=[[Yanam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Membre de l'assemblée réprésentative de Yanaon]] | after=Canacala Tataya|years=1946 – 1951}}
{{Succession box | before= Canacala Tataya | title=[[Yanam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Membre de l'assemblée réprésentative de Yanaon]] | after=[[wikt:Defunct|defunct]]|years=1955 – 1964}}

{{Succession box | before= [[Kamichetty Savithri]]| title=[[Yanam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|MLA of Yanam]] | after=Raksha Harikrishna | years=1964&ndash;19 January 1989}}

{{Succession box | before= Post created| title=[[Deputy Speaker]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] | after=[[V. N. Purushothaman]] | years=27 November 1963<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-9Y451PfQpUC|title=Administration Report|page=3|work= Dept. of Fisheries, Government of Pondicherry|year=1963}}</ref>&ndash;24 August 1964<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IOKAZJXA4H4C|title=La gazette de l'Etat|page=569|work= Government of Pondicherry|year=1964}}</ref>}}

{{Succession box | before= M.L.Selvaradjou | title=[[Deputy Speaker]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] | after= [[President's rule]]| years=5 April 1972 &ndash;2 January 1974}}

{{Succession box | before= [[M.O.H. Farook]] | title=[[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] | after= M. Chandirakasu| years=27 March 1985 &ndash;19 January 1989}}

{{S-end}}

==See also==
*[[Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
*[[Pondicherry Representative Assembly]]
*[[1946 French India Representative Assembly election]]
*[[1955 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election]]
*[[1959 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election]]
*[[1964 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election]]
*[[List of speakers of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
*[[Bouloussou Soubramaniam Sastroulou]]
*[[Samatam Krouschnaya]]

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