ROC acted as Ravi's pocket organisation.

Potula Suresh, Chaman,

Prabhakar, Madhusudhan Reddy etc became henchmen of Paritala
Ravindra.
As mentioned above, Chenna Reddy was killed by P.W.G. Paritala
Ravindra was the conspirator. After this ROC was formed and
every thing is done by ROC on behalf of Ravindra. In 1993, ROC
planted a bomb in a Television of Surya Narayana Reddy to kill
him as soon as that is switched on. But the attempt failed. The
explosion that resulted brought down the house, and killed four
persons including his mother and two brothers, his sister and
injured four others. Paritala Ravi was named Accused No.1 in the
case. Surya Narayana Reddy escaped and took shelter in
Karnataka. There he married Bhanumati.

Paritala came out of underground in 1993. He got TDP ticket from

penukonda. Ramana Reddy fought on congress ticket. one TDP
activist was killed and large scale rigging was done by Ramana
Reddy. But he lost to Paritala. Ravindra became labour minister in
NTR's govt in 1994. He resigned as the minister and M.L.A as he
didnt like the involvement of Lakshmi Parvathi in the case of
J.C.Prabhakar Reddy. J.C.Prabhakar Reddy, brother of
J.C.Diwakar Reddy wanted to join TDP. But Ravindra didnt like
this. Prabhakar Reddy had the blessings of Lakshmi Parvathi wife
of NTR which was against the wish of Anantapur district's TDP
leaders. NTR later realising that Paritala had not done any mistake,
gave ticket to him to fight from Penukonda again in 1995. He won
as M.L.A.
He was on NTR's side during the coup in TDP in 1995. He
resigned from the NTR TDP after the death of NTR and joined
TDP. He fought elections in 1996 on TDP ticket from Penukonda
on Ramana Reddy. Large scale rigging was done by Paritala
Ravindra's henchmen. No person was killed or kidnapped during
the elcetions.

ROC now eyed on Obul Reddy. In 1996 when Obul Reddy along
with his three henchmen was in a lodge in Hyderabad with a
prostitute, he was attacked by ROC. He was taking bath. That
prostitute was sent away from the room and the henchmen were
hacked down. Then they brought Obul Reddy outside from
bathroom. His throat was slit almost completely and his genitals
were cut down brutally. They escaped from there immediately.
Paritala Ravindra was the prime accused.
Suri tried to take vengeance by triggering off a remote-controlled
car bomb in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, in 1997 but missed his
target, Paritala Ravi, who was then producing a movie called
Sriramulaiah based on his father's struggle against landlords. 26
persons including Etv crew were killed and 32 were injured in the
bomb blast. This blast was first of it's kind in India and 2nd in the
world. Bhanukota Kishtappa, P.Lakshma Reddy, two engineering
graduates from Jonnala Kotha palli, Kuntimaddi Sri Ramulu,
Konda Reddy, Perugu Venkatesulu and many more were involved
in this case. All these were close associates of Surya Narayana
Reddy. Surya Narayana Reddy was later caught in Karnataka and
was put in Charlapalli jail.

ROC killed those two from Jonnala Kotha Palli in a hotel in

Hyderabad. Bhanukota Kishtappa eludes the police even now.
Kuntimaddi Sri Ramulu was killed by ROC. Venkatesulu was also
killed. Konda Reddy who killed Boya Naagaraju escaped narrowly
in two attacks on him. Ramana Reddy brother of Obul Reddy was
killed in 1999 in Hyderabad in a house. He was invited to a party
by one of his friends. There ROC group entered in the house and
shot Ramana Reddy.

During 1999 elections, a weak candidate contested on congress

ticket and Paritala on TDP ticket. From jail, Soori contested on
general ricket. He won with huge majority. Soori didnt even get his
deposits back. No person was killed or kidnapped during the
elcetions.
Paritala used to participate in land settlements in Bangalore and
Hyderabad. He used to acquire most of the big contracts on his
name. ROC helped in all these things. Most of the opponents used
to fear to submit schedules in tenders without his assent. Many
persons even though they didnt know Paritala Ravindra personally,
used the name of Paritala Ravindra to get many contracts on their
names.
After 2000, not much of quarrels were there. Once Soori planned
to blow up Ravindra's house in Anantapur with the help of Y.S
Jagan. But the attempt failed. A case was registered by the police
on Y.S Jagan and Soori. Three henchmen of Paritala were killed by
Soori's gang while they were travelling in a car to Venkatapuram
to attend Mass Marriages conducted by Paritala Ravindra. Many of
Surya Narayana Reddy supporters and Obul Reddy supporters left
their villages as they were afraid of Ravindra and ROC. In 2002
ROC's chief Potula Suresh came out of underground. Only
settlements and fraud in contracts took place during this time.

In 2004 general elections Soori's wife Bhanumati contested on

congress ticket. Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy supported her. Paritala
Ravindra was threatened by Naxals not to campaign for the
elections. His rivals were also planning to kill him during
campaigning. He therefore had not even come out of his village
Venkatapuram. Campaigning was done by his wife Suneetha and
women from the constituency. His henchmen like Suresh and
Chaman were arrested under Preventive detention act to prevent
rigging. On the polling day he and his men kidnapped and shot one
of the congress activist. He didnt die. This became huge issue and
even discussed in Assembly. After that incident he was house
arrested for that whole day. Except that incident that day was
peaceful with absolutely no rigging. Paritala Ravi won with 24,000
votes majority.

After 2004 elections, till his death:

TDP lost power and congress formed govt in the state. From the
day three of forming the govt, i.e from May 14th onwards killing
of TDP activists started in the Anantapur district. Paritala
Ravindra's life was in danger. His security was decreased to 2+2
gunmen. He asked for more security which govt refused. He went
to high court on this issue. Court issued orders to govt to provide
5+5 security. Govt did that but provided gunmen who were of age
more than 40 years and gave them very old and damaged guns.
Paritala was not allowed to go in a large convoy. Only a group of 2
vehicles was allowed showing the reasons that it becomes difficult
for the people to go on roads. His houses in Anantapur and
Venkatapuram were frequently raided by the police.

* Paritala Ravi's follower and counsellor, Basha, was killed in

Dharmavaram by Soori's gang in June 2004.
* Another of Ravi's follower Adi Narayana, who was Z.P.T.C
member of Somandepalli, was killed.
* Tagarakunta Prabhakar was also killed by Soori's gang which
consisted of Julakanti Sreenivasa Reddy, Damodar Reddy, Bhaskar
Reddy etc. Tagarakunta Konda Reddy and Soori were the
conspirators. Prabhakar who was entering his Sumo after having a
shave was shot in the car by Sreenivas Reddy. They escaped
immediately after that. Prabhakar died immediately.
* RK who was a follower of Paritala Ravindra was killed in
Bellary by the same men when he came out of house for a morning
walk.
* They planned to kill Ravi if he comes to compaign in
Byelections of Somandepalli Z.P.T.C. But Ravindra didnt
campaign.
* Anantapur DSP Narasimha Reddy was accused to be involved in
the murders of Pavurala Krishna and his brother in Anantapur.
DSP called them to police station. When they were on the way to
police station they were killed.
* Soori was allowed to use cellphones in the Charlapalli jail. He
used to operate everything from the jail itself. He met Joolakanti
Sreenivas Reddy and other prime accused in the jail itself through
Mulakhaath. All the records of Milakhath were manipulated by the
Jail Superintendent. Y.S Jagan allegedly met him in the jail with
fake identities, with the help of Charlapalli Jail Superintendent.
* Paritala Ravindra once accused Y.S Jagan that Jagan was trying
to kill him. Jagan filed a case in court of Pulivendula. Paritala
wanted to go there in a large convoy. But only 2 vehicles were
allowed.
* On 24-1-2005, after the party meeting in the TDP office in
Anantapur, when he was coming out of the office he was shot by
Joolakanti Sreenivasa Reddy, Narayana Reddy, Rekhamayyah.
Vadde Seena and some others also participated in the shooting.
Paritala died instantaneously. His gunman Habib and Ravi's
follower were also killed. Remaining gunmen who were aged
above 40 dropped guns on the shooters orders. Gangula Surya
Narayana Reddy alias Soori, Tagarakunta Konda Reddy were
conspirators.

Ravi is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.

After his death:
TDP activists were very angry and they burnt many buses and
caused damage to many buses. APSRTC was incurred a heavy loss
of around Rs 60 crore. When Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga was
killed in 1989 in Vijayawada congress activists caused a loss of Rs
300 crore to APSRTC (refer Frontline magazine dated Feb. 12 -
25, 2005). Many cases were filed on TDP workers and many were
put in jail.

The shooters took shelter in bank employee Rammohan Reddy.

Rekhamayyah surfaced before Mahaboobnagar police after three
days of murder. Few days later five persons who participated and
helped in attack surfaced in lawyer Adi Sesha Reddy house infront
of media. They were Narayana Reddy, Obi Reddy, Vadde Seena,
Ranga nayakulu, Konda. This case was given to Central Bureau of
Investigation. Police and C.B.I were not able to catch even one
person of the accused. Everyone came out of their hideouts by
themselves. First Damodar Reddy was caught because of an
accident. Joolakanti Sreenivas Reddy went to Coambattore via
Cudapah and from there he went to Delhi and lived there with his
family for sometime. He gave an interview to a TV channel saying
that he would surface himself before police after killing Suresh and
Chaman. He was CBI's most wanted criminal ny that time. He was
in a lodge in Hyderabad when a blast took place because of which
police caught him. CBI interrogated the case and dug out
practically nothing. Soori was brought back to Anantapur central
jail for interrogation. The case is still going on in the district
magistrate court of Anantapur.

Congress made Bhanumati a scapegoat by not giving a ticket to her

in the byelections. They asked TDP not to give ticket to Paritala
family so that they can stop factionism. Congress left out it's so
called ideals during the period 1975 to 2004 and suddenly they
realized the ideals after Ravi was killed. Congress gave ticket to
Boya Sree Ramulu of Gutturu village. On the nomination day of
Suneetha, six TDP activists were killed in police firing. A police
was also killed. Cases were filed on more than 2000 TDP activists.
Bindovers were carried over. J.C Diwakar Reddy who is minister
carried on campaigning for Sri Ramulu. TV channels telecasted
how he threatened TDP activists not to campaign for Suneetha. He
threatened that they will be put in jail in the cases filed on them on
nomination day. Some congress workers were caught distributing
money and liquor to the voters. These were also telecasted by the
channels. Many congress workers who left their villages in Ravi's
time came back to participate in elections. Sudhakar a TDP activist
was killed in Dharmavaram before one month of elections. Two
days before elections Kuruba Aanjineyulu was killed by congress
activists. Large number of police were employed as security on
polling day as everyone's eyes were on the elections. Elections
went on very peacefully. Suneetha won with huge majority of
19,000 votes.
Development and Social service in Penukonda:
(Refer to Eenadu News Paper,print edition,(Anantapur edition)
dated 25-1-2005).

* Ravi's family supply rice, wheat and barley to around nine

villages of Nasanakota Panchayati. The villagers are entirely
dependent on Ravi's family.
* Anantapur district is famous for continuous droughts. Poor
farmers cannot afford to marry their daughters because of dowry
and high marriage expenditure. So Ravi's family took up the
responsibilities of their marriages. Around 360 marriages were
conducted.
* He rebuilt the temple of Venkateswara in Nasanakota panchayati.
He built community halls which can be used by poor. Road
construction was carried out by him on his own money in two
villages. He spent around 4 crores to build temple and others.
* As the area has dearth of drinking water, water supplying scheme
was introduced by him in 44 villages of his constituency. 11 crores
was granted by the govt and 3 crores was spent from his pocket.
Total of 14 crores was spent to supply drinking water.
* Patolla Govardhana reddy (he was also accused in the case,
Sreenivas Reddy was in his gang) also accepted that Paritala and
his Family is Pro-Poor.

Former district collector of Anantapur, Somesh Kumar once said

that he once visited Penukonda in 1991 during his training days.
He said that Penukonda was very under developed during that
time. He said that lot of development took place during Paritala
Ravi's time.

* Govt Jr college was built in Roddam mandal during his time.

* Primary hospitals in more than 3 villages were built during his
time.
* M.R.O office in Roddam was built in his time.
* Road network was expanded to almost all villages during his
time