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| name = Kasu Brahmananda Reddy<br />
| image = Kasu Brahmananda Reddy 2011 stamp of India.jpg<br />
| caption = Kasu Brahmananda Reddy on a 2011 stamp of India<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|7|28|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Chirumamilla]], [[Guntur district]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br/>(now in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]])<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|5|20|1909|7|28|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]<br/>(now in [[Telangana]], [[India]])<br />
| order = 14th<br />
| office = Governor of Maharashtra <br />
| term_start = 20 February 1988<br />
| term_end = 18 January 1990<br />
| 1blankname = Chief Minister<br />
| 1namedata = [[Shankarrao Chavan]]<br>[[Sharad Pawar]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]<br />
| successor = [[Chidambaram Subramaniam]]<br />
| office1 = 11th [[Minister of Home Affairs (India)|Minister of Home Affairs]]<br />
| term_start1 = 10 October 1974<br />
| term_end1 = 12 March 1977<br />
| primeminister1 = [[Indira Gandhi]]<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Charan Singh]]<br />
| office2 = 3rd [[Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| governor2 = [[Pattom Thanu Pillai]]<br>[[Khandubhai Kasanji Desai]]<br />
| constituency2 = [[Guntur]] <br />
| term_start2 = 21 February 1964<br />
| term_end2 = 30 September 1971<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]<br />
| successor2 = [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]<br />
| party = [[Congress (I)]] <br />
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = <br />
| website = <br />
| footnotes =<br />
}}<br />
'''Kasu Brahmananda Reddy''' (28 July 1909 – 20 May 1994) was the [[Chief Minister]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], India, from 29 February 1964 to 30 September 1971. On 3 June 1977, he was elected president of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gupta|first=Smita|date=2 November 2009|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/ghost-writers-of-1975/262447|title=Ghost Writers Of 1975|publisher=Outlook India|access-date=7 August 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy was born in Tubadu in [[Guntur District]], Andhra Pradesh.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=seAlAAAAMAAJ|title=Leadership in South Asia|last1=Pandey|first1=Bishwa Nath|last2=Studies|first2=University of London Centre of South Asian|publisher=Vikas Publishing House|year=1977|isbn=9780706905403|pages=292|language=en}}</ref> His early education took place in Guntur and he graduated from [[Madras Presidency College]] and also studied in Kerala. He practised law and was a very successful advocate.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Reddy is credited with creating the Industrial infrastructure in and around [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]. Only Congress president to expel [[Indira Gandhi]] from Indian National Congress. During his long regime of seven years (longest for any Congress chief minister in the state of Andhra Pradesh), many major industries like [[BHEL]], [[HMT (India)|HMT]], IDPL, [[Hindustan Cables]] and several defence establishments like MIDHANI, Bharath Dynamics were established. During his tenure as the Chief Minister, [[Jalagam Vengal Rao]], the Home Minister was instrumental in suppressing the Naxal movement in the north coastal Andhra Pradesh.<br />
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Reddy also held key positions such as Telecommunications Minister, Home Minister of India (1974–1977) and Governor of [[Maharashtra]] (20 February 1988 to 18 January 1990). He was also only one of two elected All India Congress Committee Presidents, all others having been nominated.<br />
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Reddy spared no effort to keep AP united, even in the face of the [[1969 Telangana Agitation]]. It is said that over 9 months of the movement, about 370 youngsters and students were killed in police firings and that more than 70,000 people were arrested of which 7,000 were women and that people were lathi-charged 3,266 times, and about 20,000 people were injured in the lathi charge, and 1,840 people had received bullet injuries and fractures, tear gas was supposedly used 1,870 times. It is alleged that all of this was suppressed by the then Kasu Brahmananda Reddy government by using brute force.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}<br />
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The famous Chiran Palace was named after [[Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park]] in [[Jubilee Hills]], Hyderabad, in his honor.<br />
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