Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya

#Vavilala Gopala Krishna (1906 – 29 April 2003) was a legislator in the 1950s and 1960s

Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya or Andhra Gandhi

Born in 1906 at Sattenapalle in Guntur District of Andhra, he started his career as a journalist but became involved in the freedom struggle. After Independence, he was elected to the assembly of the Madras Presidency in 1952, the Andhra State assembly in 1955, and the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1962 and 1967 from Sattenapalli. On all four occasions, he was elected as an independent with the support of the undivided Communist Party of India. He was also associated with the cooperative movement and the library movement in Andhra Pradesh.

In his long political life, Vavilala participated in almost all major agitations in the state, including the Vishalandhra movement for the formation of Andhra Pradesh in the mid-1950s, the Nandigonda project agitation in Guntur, and farmers' agitations. He also participated in the anti-arrack agitation and the movement for total prohibition in the state in the 1990s. Vavilala was chairman of a state-level implementation committee for total prohibition before the ban on Indian-made foreign liquor was relaxed in 1997.

He was also chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Official Language Commission. Andhra University honoured him with the award of Kalaprapurna. He was also conferred the title of Padma Bhushan by the central government.
#వావిలాల గోపాలకృష్ణయ్య (సెప్టెంబరు 17, 1906 - ఏప్రిల్ 29, 2003) భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య సమరయోధుడు, గాంధేయవాది, ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ రాష్ట్ర శాసనసభ్యుడు మరియు పద్మ భూషణ పురస్కార గ్రహీత. కళా ప్రపూర్ణ బిరుదు గ్రహీత.
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