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{{short description|Indian politician (1921–1989)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Kamisetty Parasuram Naidu
| 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}}
| 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 and 2 daughters
}}

'''Kamisetty Sri Parasurama Varaprasada Rao Naidu''' (2 October 1921 – 19 January 1989), popularly known '''Kamisetty Parasuram Naidu''', was an Indian politician who served as the [[List of speakers of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly|Speaker of Puducherry legislative assembly]] from 1985 to 1989.<ref name=":0" /> He also served as its first Deputy Speaker from 1963 to 1964 and later in another term from 1972 to 1974 He was a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] from 1964 until his death in 1989. He A government high school in Yanam was named after him.<ref>[https://yanam.gov.in/public-utility/sri-kamichetty-sri-parasurama-varaprasada-rao-naidu-govt-high-school/ Yanam high school]</ref>

==Birth and family==
He was born in a [[Kapu (caste)|Kapu]] family<ref>{{Cite book |last=More |first=J. B. Prashant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQ1uAAAAMAAJ |title=The Telugus of Yanam and Masulipatnam: From French Rule to Integration with India |date=2007 |publisher= |pages=263 |language=en |author-link=J. B. Prashant More}}</ref> in [[Yanam]] as the son of Former Maire de [[Yanam Municipality|Yanaon]], [[Kamisetty Venugopala Rao Naidu]] and Kamalamma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eoNmAAAAMAAJ|page=294|title= Who's who in India |publisher=Business Press Private Limited|year=1986}}</ref> He married [[Kamisetty Savithri]] of Badeti family hailing from Eluru.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAkuAAAAYAAJ|title=Directory of Indian Women Today, 1976|page=251|work= Ajīta Kaura, Arpana Caur|publisher=India International Publications|year=1976}}</ref> He was an undisputed leader until his death in Yanam after his father.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQ1uAAAAMAAJ|title=The Telugus of Yanam and Masulipatnam: From French rule to Integration with India|year=2007|author=J B Prashant More}}.</ref>

== Member of representative assembly==
He was a member of the representative assembly of Pondicherry 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 the 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 name=":0">{{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 the 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=1964–19 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>–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 –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 –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]]
*[[1969 Pondicherry Legislative Assembly election]]
*[[List of speakers of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
*[[Bouloussou Soubramaniam Sastroulou]]
*[[Samatam Krouschnaya]]

==References==
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==Notes==
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[[Category:Pondicherry MLAs 1974–1977]]
[[Category:Pondicherry MLAs 1977–1980]]
[[Category:Pondicherry MLAs 1980–1985]]
[[Category:Pondicherry MLAs 1985–1990]]

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