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| name = Kommareddi Suryanarayana<br />
| image = Kommareddi suryanarayana.jpg<br />
| caption = With his great grandson in 1990<br />
| birth_date = 8 March 1907<br />
| birth_place = [[Pothunuru]], [[West Godavari district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| residence = Eluru, Andhra Pradesh<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1995|5|6|1907|3|8}}<br />
| death_place = [[Guntur]], Andhra Pradesh<br />
| constituency = [[Eluru (Lok Sabha constituency)|Eluru]]<br />
| office = Member of Parliament<br />
| term =<br />
| predecessor = [[Vimala Devi]]<br />
| successor = [[Chitturi Subbarao Chaudhary]]<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| spouse = Krishnaveni<br />
| children = Rathnamanikyamba<br />
| website = [http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/1998.htm]<br />
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'''Kommareddi Suryanarayana''' ({{te|కొమ్మారెడ్డి సూర్యనారాయణ}}) (8 March 1907 – 6 May 1995) was a [[Rajya Sabha]] and [[Lok Sabha]] member in Indian Parliament, an Indian freedom activist and [[Gandhian]].<ref>Suryanarayana Kommareddi, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part II, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 1006.</ref><br />
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==Early life and career==<br />
Suryanarayana was born in [[Pothunuru]] village in [[West Godavari district]] on 8 March 1907, a son of Shri Brahmaiah and Smt. Kanakamma. He began primary education in his native village, but gave up his studies in 1921 in response to the call of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and joined the Congress as a volunteer. He was elected as the Pothunuru Village Panchayat President for the period of 1933 and 1936. He was imprisoned on several occasions during the [[Indian freedom movement]]. Twelve of his family members were sent to jail in the freedom movement, including his father, Shri Brahmiah, and mother, Smt. Kanakamma. Suryanarayana participated in the [[Salt Satyagraha]] of 1930, [[Civil disobedience movement]] of 1932 and [[Quit India movement]] of 1942. He was Joint Secretary of the District Congress Committee from 1936 to 1937 and President of the West Godavari District Congress Committee from 1947 to 1948. He was a member of the Pradesh Congress Committee for approximately 25 years where he held different positions.<br />
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He was also elected as a member of [[Rajya Sabha]] between 1952 and 1958.<br />
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He was elected to the [[4th Lok Sabha]], [[5th Lok Sabha]] and [[6th Lok Sabha]] from the [[Eluru (Lok Sabha constituency)|Eluru]] constituency as a member of [[Indian National Congress]] in 1967, 1971, and 1977 respectively. He was a member of various Select Committees and other Parliamentary Committees. He was a member of the Indian Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Meetings held at [[Canberra, Australia]] in April 1977.<br />
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He was the founder and president of The West Godavari Cooperative Sugars Limited at [[Bhimadole]] and Director of Andhra Pradesh Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories and Eluru Tube Wells Construction and Irrigation Co-operative Society Ltd. He was president of West Godavari District Co-operative Paddy Processing Society Ltd., Tadepalligudam from 1 January 1977.<br />
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He died in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 6 May 1995, aged 88.<br />
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==Positions held==<br />
* Estimates Committee Member 1971–77.<br />
* Member of Executive Committee of Congress Party in Parliament from 1969 to 1978.<br />
* Member Select Committee on (i) Motor vehicles (Amendment)Bill (ii) Insurance (Amendment) Bill (iii) Central Excise Duties (Amendment) Bill and (iv) Defections Bill 1977–79.<br />
* Representative to National Productivity Council.<br />
* Member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Food and Agriculture.<br />
* Member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Commerce, Civil Supplies and Co-operation.<br />
* Member of Joint Select Committee on Lok Pal Bill 1977.<br />
* Member of National Social Welfare of India, New Delhi.<br />
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==Social activities==<br />
Suryanarayana worked for the uplifting of rural masses and organised a rural electricity scheme for which the upland farmers voluntarily contributed Rs. 2.00 Cores, forming 50% of total cost of the project in the upland area of West Godavari District.<br />
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==Visits==<br />
Suryanarayana has visited several countries on Parliamentary Delegations to study the modernization of agriculture, the rice milling industry, and the fishing industry: [[Afghanistan]], [[Iran]], [[Turkey]], [[Kuwait]], [[Singapore]], and [[Australia]]. He has also visited [[Hong Kong]], [[Taiwan]], [[Japan]], [[South Korea]], the [[Philippines]] and [[Thailand]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120613033946/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/1998.htm Biodata of Kommareddi Suryanarayana at Lok Sabha website.]<br />
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