Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1880 in a poor family, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was a nationalist and important leader of freedom struggle. He is famous for his defeat by Subhash Chandra Bose in 1939 he lost the Congress presidential election which was termed by Mahatma Gandhi as his own defeat. Subhash Chandra Bose was later expelled from the Congress Party.
A doctor by profession, he chose politics as his
profession and was a member of All India Congress Committee and Congress Working
Committee. In August, 1942, he was arrested during Quit India Movement and kept
in prison for three years.
In 1935 he wrote History of the Indian National Congress which
was the official history of the party.
Sitaramayya was elected President
of the Indian National Congress in 1948. He served as the
Governor of Madhya Pradesh in Independent India. He passed away in 1959.
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