Senior advocate and labour leader Okay. Subba Rao, 92, who had fought for the rights of employees for about 60 years, handed away right here on Friday. He leaves behind his spouse Susheela Rao and daughter Maya Rao.
A family title among the many employees’ group, he had argued on behalf of freedom fighters N.L. Upadyaya, S. Suryanarayan Rao, M.S. Krishnan and M.C. Narasimhan, which had led to their launch from jail.
He had fought for democratic rights when Emergency was imposed within the nation, a CITU launch stated. “Through writ of habeas corpus, he had exposed arrests of senior activists during Emergency. He had helped workers of various public sector undertakings in the city besides members of various other unions in other factories,” stated CITU.
