Muppala Lakshmana Rao

Muppala Lakshmana Rao
Born	Beerpur, Sarangapur mandal, Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality	India
Other names	Ganapathy
Organization	Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Muppalla Lakshmana Rao (Telugu: ముప్పల లక్ష్మణ రావు) alias Ganapathy is present General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was born in village Beerpur in Sarangapur mandal in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. He worked as teacher in Karimnagar district and deserted his job for higher education in Warangal. There, he met Maoist leaders Nalla Adi Reddy and Kondapalli Seetharamaiah and he joined the naxalite movement. He was one of the early members of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and grew as General Secretary of the party that is now called as Communist Party of India (Maoist).

See also

• Cherukuri Rajkumar
• Mallojula Koteswara Rao
• Prashant Bose
• Naxalite
• Naxalite-Maoist insurgency

External Links

• Interview with Ganapathy by the Swedish writer Jan Myrdal January 2010