Kona Prabhakar Rao
| Kona Prabhakara Rao | |
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In office 1967–1987 |
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| Constituency | Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 July 1916 Bapatla, Madras Presidency (now Andhra Pradesh) |
| Died | 20 October 1990 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana) |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
Kona Prabhakara Rao (10 July 1916 – 20 October 1990) was born on 10 July 1916 in Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Congress, Governor of Sikkim from June 18, 1984 to May 30, 1985, and Governor of Maharashtra from May 31, 1985 to April 2, 1986. He died on October 20, 1990, at National Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad due to cardio-respiratory failure
He did most of his schooling in his native place Bapatla, and then graduated from the Loyola College, Madras and completed his law degree from the ILS Law College, Pune.
At the age of 16, Rao conducted boycott of schools when late Motilal Nehru died. He was a social and political worker and took active part in the Salt Satyagraha movement and Quit India Movement of 1942. In Bapatla he organised a youth league and propagated using of Khadi.
Kona Prabhakar Rao born into a wealthy Telugu Niyogi Brahmin family in Bapatla, received his higher education in Madras. He started practice as an Advocate in Bapatla in the composite Madras State in 1940. He was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1967 and later in 1972 and 1978. He was Speaker of the Assembly during 1980-81. He was President of the APCC(I). He was also Minister of Finance and Planning during the Chief Ministership of Bhavana Venkatram and Vijaya Bhaskara Reddi.
Rao was appointed as Governor of the union territory of Pondicherry on 2 September 1983 and he continued in that post until June 1984. On 17 June 1984 he assumed the office of the Governor of Sikkim, and then succeeded Air Chief Marshal I. H. Latif, as the Governor of Maharashtra, on 30 May 1985.
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