Nomula Narsimhaiah, an MLA of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi passed away due to ill health on Tuesday, while being treated at the Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad. Nomula, who twice won as an MLA for the CP-M in 1999 and 2004, lost the 2009 elections as the Bhongir MP. Later having joined the TRS in 2013, lost to Congress’ Kunduru Jana Reddy in the 2014 elections. However, he was elected from Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency in the 2018 Telangana general elections by defeating Congress’ Kunduru Jana Reddy by 7,771 votes.
He was born on 9 January 1956 in Palem Village of Nakrekal Mandal in Nalgonda district. Prior to his stint with the TRS, the 64-yr old was a legislator and a senior leader with CPI-M, elected twice as an MLA from Nakrekal assembly constituency. He has an MA and an LLB from Osmania University and was fascinated by communist parties with a passion for revolutionary literature. He also served in the Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle which was a peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the region and, later, the princely state of Hyderabad.
