He started as a communist and later entered electoral politics by joining the Telugu Desam Party.

He was elected three times as an MLA from the Penukonda constituency in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh.

He went to his maternal uncle, Kondaiah, in Seerpi Kottaala village of Uravakonda Constituency to take shelter.

He allied himself with Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War (PWG) who were ready to help Ravi and so plotted against Chenna Reddy.

Paritala Ravindra was accused in the murder of 7 of Maddela Cheruvu Suri's family members (including women and children) in 1995 via a TV bomb.

[1][6] Maddelacheruvu Suri tried to take vengeance by triggering a remote-controlled car bomb in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, in 1997, but missed his target.

The main person accused in the case, Maddelacheruvu Suri (Gangula Surya Narayana Reddy), was murdered by his aide Bhanu Kiran on 4 January 2011 in Hyderabad for property disputes.