Majji Sundarayya Patrudu (d. February 16, 2004, Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam

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) was an India

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n communist politician and trade union

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ist from Andhra Pradesh

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. At the time of his death he was the general secretary of the All India Centre of Trade Unions

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 and a Central Committee

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 member of the Marxist Communist Party of India

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M.S. Patrudu contested the 1999 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly

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election from the Visakhapatnam-I constituency. He got 676 votes (0.9% of the votes in the constituency).