Career
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy is credited with creating the Industrial infrastructure in and around Hyderabad. Only congress president to expel Indira Gandhi from Indian National Congress. During his long regime of seven years (Longest for any Congress chief minister in the state of Andhra Pradesh), many major industries like BHEL, HMT, IDPL, Hindustan Cables and several defense establishments like MIDHANI, Bharath Dynamics were established. During his tenure as the Chief Minister, Jalagam Vengal Rao, the Home Minister was instrumental in suppressing the naxal movement in the north coastal Andhra Pradesh. Kasu spared no effort to keep AP united, even in the face of Telangana movement in 1969.
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy also held the key positions, such as Home Minister of India (1974–1977) and the Governor of Maharastra (20 February 1988 to 18 January 1990).
Over 9 months of the movement, about 370 youngsters and students were killed in police firings, more than 70,000 people were arrested of which 7000 were women. People were lathicharged 3266 times, about 20,000 people were injured in the lathicharges, and 1840 people had received bullet injuries and fractures, tear gas was used 1870 times. But it was suppressed by the then Kasu Brahmananda Reddy government by using brute force.
The famous Chiran Palace was named after Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, in his honor.
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