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[[File:D.V._Rao,_1957_Lok_Sabha_portrait.gif|thumb|D.V. Rao in 1957]]'''Devulapalli Venkateswara Rao''' (1917-1984) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the [[2nd Lok Sabha]] of [[India]]. He represented the [[Nalgonda (Lok Sabha Constituency)|Nalgonda]] constituency of [[Telangana]].

D.V. Rao was born in Ingurthi village, [[Warangal District]] on June 1, 1917, son of Devulapalli Varada Rao.<ref name=a>countercurrents.org. ''[https://countercurrents.org/2016/07/veteran-communist-revolutionary-dv-rao-remembered/ Veteran Communist Revolutionary DV Rao Remembered]''</ref><ref name=ls>Lok Sabha. ''[http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1327.htm RAO, SHRI DEVULAPALLI VENKATESWARA]''</ref> His family hailed from Bandameedi Chandupatla village, Suryapet taluk, [[Nalgonda District]].<ref name=a/>

Whilst a high school student in [[Khammam]] he took part in the 3rd conference of the [[Andhra Mahasabha]].<ref name=a/> D.V. Rao was active in the students movement, organizing protests against the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] government.<ref name=ls/> Whilst a B.A. student at [[Osmania University]], he was an organiser of the 'Vande Mataram' students movement in Hyderabad State.<ref name=a/><ref name=ls/> He was expelled from university for his role in the protests, but was able to complete his graduation at Jabalpur Arts College in 1938.<ref name=a/> He came into contact with Marxist literature during this period.<ref name=a/> After having returned to his village, he married Ranganayakamma in May 1939.<ref name=a/><ref name=ls/>

D.V. Rao was recruited by the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1939.<ref name=a/> D.V. Rao would serve as President of the Nalgonda District Committee of the [[Andhra Mahasabha]], and would go on to serve as secretary of the organization.<ref name=ls/> He was a key organiser of the [[Telangana armed struggle]] and spent eight years in the underground (until 1953).<ref name=ls/> He played an active part in the drafting of the 1948 ''Andhra Thesis'' of the Provincial Secretariat of CPI, which for the first time in India outlined a revolutionary line inspired by the experiences of the [[Communist Party of China]] under [[Mao Zedong]].<ref name=a/> In the late 1960s Rao argued that the surrender of arms of the Telangana struggle had been a great betrayal.<ref name="SundarayyaChattopadhyaya1972"/>

He was the secretary of the Nalgonda District Committee of the CPI, and secretariat member of the CPI Telangana Committee (formed in February 1952) and a member of the CPI Central Committee.<ref name=ls/><ref name="SundarayyaChattopadhyaya1972">{{cite book|author1=Puccalapalli Sundarayya|author2=Harindranath Chattopadhyaya|title=Telangana People's Struggle and Its Lessons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPjIh1G0TmcC&pg=PA323|year=1972|publisher=Foundation Books|isbn=978-81-7596-316-0|pages=323–324}}</ref> D.V. Rao was the youngest member of the CPI before [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India|the 1964 split]].<ref name=a/> He served as Vice President of the Telangana [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]].<ref name=ls/> D.V. Rao was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] from the [[Nalgonda (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nalgonda constituency]] in the [[1957 Indian general election]].<ref name=ls/>

In June 1968 Rao founded the [[Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries]] (APCCCR) along with [[T. Nagi Reddy]], [[Chandra Pulla Reddy]] and Kolla Venkaiah.<ref name="Calman2019">{{cite book|author=Leslie J Calman|title=Protest In Democratic India: Authority's Response To Challenge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15SpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|date=16 August 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-030844-0|page=64}}</ref> In April 1975 D.V. Rao and T. Nagi Reddy founded the [[Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist–Leninist)]] (UCCRI(ML)).<ref name=a/> In 1974 D.V. Rao's ''Telangana Armed Struggle and the Path of Indian Revolution'' was published in English and Telugu.<ref name=a/> The pamphlet was a review of [[P. Sundarayya]]'s work ''Telangana People’s Struggle and its Lessons''.<ref name=a/> In the late 1970s, he became the founding editor of ''The Proletarian Line''.<ref name=a/>

D.V. Rao died on July 12, 1984.<ref name=a/> His work ''The History of the People’s Armed Struggle of Telangana (1946-51) Volume-I'' was published in Telugu posthumously in 1988, the book covers the history of the Telangana struggle up to the 1948 Police Action.<ref name=a/>

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[[Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Telangana]]
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[[Category:2nd Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:People from Hanamkonda district]]

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