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 neelam sanjiva reddy
neelam sanjiva reddy

neelam sanjiva reddy -lrb- 19 may 1913 -- 1 june 1996 -rrb- was the sixth president of india , serving from 1977 to 1982 .
beginning a long political career with the indian national congress party in the indian independence movement , he went on to hold several key offices in independent india -- as the first chief minister of andhra pradesh , a two-time speaker of the lok sabha and a union minister -- before becoming the youngest-ever indian president .
born in present-day anantapur district , andhra pradesh , reddy completed his schooling at adayar and joined the government arts college at anantapur .
he quit to become an indian independence activist and was jailed for participating in the quit india movement .
he was elected to the madras legislative assembly in 1946 as a congress party representative .
reddy became deputy chief minister of andhra state in 1953 and the first chief minister of andhra pradesh in 1956 .
he was a union cabinet minister under prime ministers lal bahadur shastri and indira gandhi from 1964 to 1967 and lok sabha speaker from 1967 to 1969 .
he later retired from active politics but returned in 1975 , responding to jayaprakash narayan 's call for `` total revolution '' against the indira gandhi government .
elected to parliament in 1977 as a candidate of the janata party , reddy was unanimously elected speaker of the sixth lok sabha and three months later was elected unopposed as president of india .
as president , reddy worked with prime ministers morarji desai , charan singh and indira gandhi .
reddy was succeeded by giani zail singh in 1982 and he retired to his farm in anantapur .
he died in 1996 and his `` samadhi '' is at kalahalli near bangalore .
in 2013 , the government of andhra pradesh commemorated reddy 's birth centenary .
