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{{Short description|Indian politician (1914–1992)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Makineni Basavapunnaiah
| image = Michil k.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth-date|14 December 1914}}
| birth_place = Toorpupalem, [[Guntur District]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|4|12|1914|12|14|df=y}}
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], India
| office = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member]] of [[Indian Parliament|Parliament]], ([[Rajya Sabha]])
| term = 3 April 1952 - 2 April 1966
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| spouse = Jagadamba
| children = Jaswant Mohan
}}
'''Makineni Basavapunnaiah''' BA ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: మాకినేని బసవపున్నయ్య) (b: 14 December 1914 – d: 12 April 1992) was an Indian Communist leader who was a member of [[Politburo]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (CPI (M)). He was also the editor of the central organ of CPI (M), ''People's Democracy'' magazine.<ref>Basavapunnaiah Makineni, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part I, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 375.</ref> He was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] for 14 years from 3 April 1952 to 2 April 1966.

He was born to Shri Venkatappaiah in Toorpupalem village near Repalle in [[Guntur district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. He studied in his village, Repalle and Machilipatnam. He has graduated from Andhra Christian College, Guntur in 1936.

Makineni Basavapunnaiah was influenced by the upsurge in the [[Indian Independence Movement]] in the early 1930s.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} He grew increasingly disillusioned by the policies of the then [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] leadership.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} In 1934 he joined the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name="gana">{{cite web |url=http://www.ganashakti.com/archive/mv.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-06-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927041152/http://www.ganashakti.com/archive/mv.htm |archivedate=27 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Within the [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI), he began working as a district level activist in [[Guntur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. In 1943 he was elected to the [[Andhra Pradesh]] Provincial Committee of the CPI and its secretariat. He participated in the [[Telangana Rebellion]]. At the Second Congress of the CPI in 1948, he was elected to the Central Committee of the party. In June 1950, was inducted into the party [[politburo]]. He was one among the four member Indian Communist delegation who met [[Joseph Stalin]] clandestinely in 1950 to receive his advise on whether to continue the [[Telangana Rebellion]] or not.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

In 1957, he represented the CPI at the international conference of communist parties in Moscow, [[USSR]].

When the [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India|CPI was divided into two in 1964]], he became a politburo member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]], the splinter group of the Communist Party of India.<ref name="gana"/>

He died in New Delhi in 1992.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/b.pdf Biodata of Basavapunnaiah Makineni at Rajya Sabha website.]

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