♦ Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and former Member of Parliament, Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, died in hyderabad on 22 August 2025.

♦ He was 83. He was born on March 25, 1942, in Kondravpally village of Telangana's Mahabubnagar district.

♦ He was a two-time Member of Parliament, representing the Nalgonda constituency in the 12th (1998-1999) and 14th (2004-2009) Lok Sabha. 

♦ Sudhakar Reddy was elected as the general secretary of the CPI in 2012 during the national congress held in Patna.

♦ He was re-elected to the post in 2015 (Puducherry) and again in 2018 (Kollam).

♦ Though his term was set to continue until 2021, he stepped down from the role on July 24, 2019, citing health reasons.