| Names |
NEELAM SANJEEVA
REDDY |
| Date of Birth |
May 19, 1913 (District
Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh, India) |
| Date of
Death |
June 01, 1996 (Bangalore,
Karnataka, India) |
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Profession / Traits / Activities |
Politics; 6th President of India
(1977 - 1982) |
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Date-wise Events /
Works |
- June 08, 1935 - Shri Sanjiva Reddy
married Shrimati Nagarathnamma and they had one son and
three daughters.
- March 17, 1967 - He was elected Speaker
of the Lok Sabha, an office that won him unprecedented
acclaim and admiration.
- July 19, 1969 - Shri Reddy resigned the
Speakership of the Lok Sabha to contest the Presidential
election.
- May 01, 1975 - He entered active
politics again by addressing a public meeting at Hyderabad
along with Shri Jayaprakash Narain.
- March 26, 1977 - Shri Reddy was
unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
- July 13, 1977 - He relinquished this
office on this day to file his nomination for the
Presidentship of the Indian Union.
- July 21, 1977 - After being unanimously
sponsored as the consensus candidate for the Presidentship
by all political parties, a reare even in recent political
history, he was declared elected unopposed on this day.
- July 25, 1977 -
He was sworn in as the sixth President of India on this day.
- 1989 -
He had authored a book, Without
Fear or Favour : Reminiscences and Reflections of a President,
published in 1989.
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| Special Achievements
/ Events |
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First and two time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
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Two time
Speaker of the Lok Sabha
and
Union Minister.
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In 1938, he was elected Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh
Provincial Congress Committee and he held that office for 10
years.
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During the
Quit India Movement,
he was
imprisoned
and was mostly in jail between 1940 to 1945.
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He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946
and became the
Secretary of the Madras Congress Legislature Party.
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He was also a
Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly
which framed the Constitution of India.
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In 1951 he was elected
President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee.
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He was sworn in as the sixth President of India on
25 July, 1977.
During his term of office, he worked with three
governments under Prime Ministers
Morarji Desai,
Charan Singh
and
Indira Gandhi.
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He died of pneumonia in Bangalore in 1996 at the age of 83.
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