Bezawada Gopala Reddy

Bezawada Gopala Reddy
Bezawada Gopala Reddy in 1944
6th Governor of Uttar Pradesh
In office 1 May 1967 – 30 June 1972
Chief Minister	Charan Singh Chandra Bhanu Gupta Tribhuvan Narain Singh Kamalapati Tripathi
Preceded by	Bishwanath Das
Succeeded by	Shashi Kant Varma (Acting)
2nd Chief Minister of Andhra State
In office 28 March 1955 – 1 November 1956
Governor	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Preceded by	President's rule
Succeeded by	Office Abolished (Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
Personal details
Born	Bezawada Gopala Reddy 5 August 1907 Nellore, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Andhra Pradesh, India)
Died	9 March 1997(1997-03-09) (aged 89)
Nationality	Indian

Bezawada Gopala Reddy (5 August 1907 – 9 March 1997) was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of the erstwhile Andhra State (28 March 1955 – 1 November 1956) and Governor of Uttar Pradesh (1 May 1967 – 1 July 1972). He was popularly known as Andhra Tagore.^{[citation needed]} Both Gopal Reddy and his wife studied at Santhiniketan established by Rabindranath Tagore. It was during this time that Gopal Reddy took a liking for Tagore's works and translated many of his books into Telugu.

See also[]

• List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh

Member A.I.C.C., since 1931 ; M.L.A., Madras, 1937–46 ; was Minister Local Administration, Government of Madras, 1937–39 ; President Andhra Pradesh, 1955–56 ; Finance Minister, Madras, 1947 ; Home Minister, Andhra Pradesh, 1956 ; Finance Minister, Andhra Pradesh, 1957 ; M.P. Rajya Sabha, 1958–60, Lok Sabha, 1962 ; Minister of Revenue and Civil Expenditure Government of India, 1958–61 ; Minister for Information and Broadcasting 1962–63 ; resigned under the Kamraj Plan ; Chairman, Children's Film Society; President: Daskshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (A.P.) ; Telugu Bhasha Samiti, since 1947 ; A.P. Sahitya Academy, since 1957 ; All-India Chess Federation, since 1959 ; Governor of U.P. since 1 May 1967.

Sources[]

• Rulers
• "'Sahithi Brindavana Sanchary' Dr. Bejawada Gopala Reddy" from C. P. Brown Academy

Awards[]

Raja-Lakshmi Award for the year 1989 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.

References[]

http://www.reddysociety.com/?q=node/33 Archived 16 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine