Kavuri Sambasiva Rao (born 1 October 1943) is an Indian politician, engineer and industrialist from the state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. He was the Minister of Textiles at

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, with cabinet rank, for India in UPA Government from 17 June 2013. Rao resigned as minister and from the

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by opposing the bifurcation of

in 2014.

Early life and education

Rao was born in 1943. He was educated at

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Career

He has been a member of the

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, 9th,

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, 14th and

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. He represents the

Eluru Eluru is a city and the district headquarters of Eluru district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the 14 municipal corporations in the state and the mandal headquarters of Eluru mandal in the Eluru revenue division. The cit ...

constituency of

and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party, which he joined on 1 May 2014. Once he was permanent invitee for

. Earlier he represented

Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency is one of the twenty-five List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha#Andhra Pradesh (25), lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises seven assembly segments it belongs to Krishna district ...

in Andhra Pradesh. Kavuri is business entrepreneur in the fields of civil construction and health care. He was elected to Indian Parliament for fives times and member in parliament committee. He had sworn in as Union Cabinet minister for Textiles on 17 June 2013. On 28 April 2014 he resigned from the

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and announced his decision to join the

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(BJP). A month earlier he had resigned as the minister, protesting the creation of the State of

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. He has also announced that he would not contest the

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polls on

ticket.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rao, Kavuru 1943 births Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh India MPs 1984–1989 India MPs 1989–1991 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 2009–2014 Telugu politicians Members of the Cabinet of India Union Ministers from United Andhra Pradesh Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh People from West Godavari district People from Eluru Engineers from Andhra Pradesh Indian industrialists Businesspeople from Andhra Pradesh