Tammineni Veerabhadram

Thammineni Veerabhadram (born 1954) is an Indian politician, belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). As of 2011 he was a Central Committee member of the party.

Veerbhadram hails from Khammam District. He entered politics through activism in the Students Federation of India.

Veerbhadram contested the Khammam Lok Sabha seat in the 1991 Indian general election. He finished in second place with 310,268 votes (43.37% of the votes in the constituency). There was less than 1% margin between him and the winning candidate, P.V. Rangaiah Naidu of the Indian National Congress. He contested the Khammam seat again in the 1996 election and got elected to the 11th Lok Sabha. He obtained 374,675 votes (42.82%), defeating P.V. Rangaiah Naidu.

He lost the Khammam Lok Sabha seat in the 1998 election. Veerabhadram won 352,083 votes (39.01%), finishing in second place. He was the most voted CPI(M) candidate in the fray outside of the left strongholds West Bengal and Kerala.

Veerabhadram was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in the 2004 election, standing as a candidate in the Khammam constituency. He obtained 46,505 votes. In the 2009 Legislative Assembly election he contested the neighbouring Palair constituency instead, where he finished in second place with 58,889 votes (37.98%). As of 2011 he served as honorary president of the Khammam District unit of the Kulavivaksha Vyatireka Porata Sangham.

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