{"id":11345,"date":"2020-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2020-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11345","title":{"rendered":"Sunnam Rajaiah, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunnam Rajaiah — former Bhadrachalam MLA, senior CPI (M) leader and Girijana Sangam leader — reportedly died of COVID-19 in the wee hours on August 4, 2020. He was 68 years old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He died while being shifted from the Indian city of Hyderabad to a COVID-19 Hospital in Vijayawada. He is survived by wife and two sons and two daughters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

A native of Sunnamvaari Gudem village, V.R. Puram mandal, in East Godavari district, Mr. Rajaiah served as Bhadrachalam MLA for three times.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He participated in many tribal agitations, protecting tribal lands and their rights in the Agency areas in Bhadrachalam, East and West Godavari districts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The three-time MLA also participated in many agitations in CPI (M). The AP Girijana Sangam, Adivasi Sankshema Sangam and leaders of other organizations expressed grief over the demise of Mr. Rajaiah.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He had won from the Bhadrachalam constituency in 1999, 2004 and 2014. He contested from Rampachodavaram Assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh in the last Assembly elections unsuccessfully.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Sunnam Rajaiah — former Bhadrachalam MLA, senior CPI (M) leader and Girijana Sangam leader — reportedly died of COVID-19 in the wee hours on August 4, 2020. He was 68 years old. He died while being shifted from the Indian city of Hyderabad to a COVID-19 Hospital in Vijayawada. He is survived by wife and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[47,3,7019],"tags":[1051,114,8051,113,792,6710,6709,6224,6237,8517,8516,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Sunnam_Rajaiah.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11429,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11429","url_meta":{"origin":11345,"position":0},"title":"K Thangavelu, politician","date":"May 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"K Thangavelu, a Marxist leader and former MLA\u00a0who cut his teeth as a banian mill worker and went on to spearhead many successful agitations for labour rights in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, died of COVID-19 in Coimbatore on September 13, 2020. 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