V. Venkatasubba Reddiar was the second Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry (Puducherry).

[1] His father Vaithilingam Reddiar was the Mayor of Nettapakkam commune during French rule.

[4][5] According to The Hindu, Reddiar was "considered one of the architects who spearheaded the freedom struggle movement against the French ... [he] was in the vanguard of defiant mass movements against the foreign rule.

Twelve leaders including Reddiar formed a parallel government against French Government on 31 March 1954; Pondicherry merged with the Indian Union on 13 October 1954.

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