Bommagani Dharma Bhiksham Goud, Info

Bommagani Dharma Bhiksham Goud Veteran freedom fighter, Communist from GoudCommunity was Suryapet, Nalgonda, Telangana.
Dharma Bhiksham good orator, worked journalist during freedom struggle contributing to Meezan, Rayyat, Golconda newspapers.

Dharma Bhiksham as student boycotted silver jubilee celebrations of the then Nizam's coronation, As a student Dharma Bhiksham Goud ran a students hostel in Suryapet, which was a training centre for students to inculcate patriotism and also to fight against the social evils of those days.

Dharma Biksham Goud was an active member in rebellion that took place in Telangana, against the Nizam of Hyderabad for which he was imprisoned for more than five years. Dharma Biksham was named as most dangerous political prisoner, was imprisoned alone in dark cell and in to various jails like Nalgonda, Chenchalguda, Aurangabad, Jalna etc. Dharam Biksham was the convenor of the jail inmates and organised strike in prisons demanding rights for prisoners.

Dharma Bhiksham victories in the elections are historical. In 1952, first general elections to Hyderabad State Assembly, he got the highest majority. In 1957, he elected to from Nakrekal constituency and in 1962, elected from Nalgonda to Andhra Pradesh Assembly. Dharma Bhiksham achieved a rare feat of hat trick victories from three different constituencies consecutively. Also, he is one of the very few, who got elected to two state assemblies, i.e., Hyderabad State(1952), Andrha Pradesh(1957 & 1962).

In 1991, Dharma Bhiksham was the only M.P. representing CPI from South India. In 1996 he won the election by defeating 480 contestants with a margin well above 76,000 votes. This huge number of contestants in the fray are not against the Bhiksham, but contested by the call given by Jala Sadhana Samithi to draw the attention of nation on the neglect attitude of the Government towards Nalgonda district, which was suffering with heavy fluoride. This election brought the change in the election system in India by enhancing the nomination deposit amount drastically to avoid number of non serious contestants. Dharma Bhiksham was the only M.P. got elected twice consecutively from Nalgonda parliamentary constituency.


Dharma Bhiksham is well known for upliftment of toddy tappers community. He organised toddy tappers under A.P. Geetha Panivarala sangam, which is a premier and first union for toddy tappers with more than 50 years of history. He advocated for upgrading the toddy tapping profession scientifically and also to develop it as a rural industry by making sugar, jaggery, chocolates, and cool drinks etc. from toddy. He is the instrumental for achieving ex-gratia to the toddy tappers, who fell from toddy palm trees while tapping. He helped in the formation of co-operative societies for toddy tappers. For this he was specially felicitate on the occasion of hundred years of Co-operative movement by the then chief minister Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy

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