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| name = Kala Venkata Rao<br />
| image = Kala Venkata Rao.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1900|07|07}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mukkamala]], [[East Godavari District]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1959|03|28}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| relations =<br />
| office = Minister of Revenue, [[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
| term_start = 17 April 1957<br />
| term_end = 28 March 1959<br />
| predecessor = ''Position established''<br />
| successor = [[Konda Venkata Ranga Reddy]]<br />
| office1 = Minister of Revenue, [[Madras Presidency]]<br />
| term_start1 = 23 March 1947<br />
| term_end1 = 24 January 1949<br />
| predecessor1 = K. Koti Reddi<br />
| successor1 = H. Sitarama Reddi<br />
| constituency_AM2 = [[Kothapeta (Assembly constituency)|Kothapeta]]<br />
| assembly2 = Andhra Pradesh Legislative<br />
| termstart2 = 23 April 1955<br />
| termend2 = 28 March 1959<br />
| predecessor2 = Newly created<br />
| successor2 = M.V.S.S. Raju<br />
<!-- -->| constituency_AM3 = [[Amalapuram (SC) (Assembly constituency)|Amalapuram (General)]]<br />
| assembly3 = Madras Legislative<br />
| termstart3 = 1937<br />
| termend3 = 1952<br />
| predecessor3 = <br />
| successor3 = Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| spouse = Rajeswaramma<br />
| children = None<br />
| occupation = [[Freedom fighter]], [[Politician]]<br />
| signature = Kala Venkata Rao Signature.jpg<br />
}}<br />
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'''Kala Venkata Rao''' was an Indian [[Indian independence movement|independence activist]] and politician. He served as the Minister for Revenue in the governments of the [[Madras Presidency]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]]. He also served as the Minister of Finance in the latter.<br />
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A member of the [[Indian National Congress]], Rao served as vice-president and general secretary of the [[Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee]] (APCC) between 1939 and 1946. He also served as general secretary of the [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC) between 1949 and 1951. Recognizing his role in the independence movement, [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]] called him the "[[Dronacharya]]" of the Andhra movement struggle.<br />
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==Birth==<br />
Rao was born in Mukkamala, [[East Godavari District]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]] on 7 July 1900<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/bitstream/2009/4764/6/AND-1996-041-5.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-09-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721183049/http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/bitstream/2009/4764/6/AND-1996-041-5.pdf |archivedate=21 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> to Kala Brahmayya and Kala Venkamma. His parents were originally from [[Nadipudi]] village, [[West Godavari District]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]].<br />
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==Education==<br />
Rao had his primary education at his native place Mukkamala and secondary education at Middle School, Pulletikurru and Board High School, Amalapuram. He joined intermediate class in [[Maharajah's College]], [[Vizianagaram]]. He passed Intermediate and joined B.A. in the same college during the academic year 1919–20. But he was sent out of college as he happened to be ring-leader of anti-British feelings in the college. Thereupon he joined senior B.A. class at Noble College, [[Machilipatnam]]. Those were the days of non-cooperation movement. When Mahatma Gandhi gave a call for boycott of the law courts, educational institutions and legislative bodies, Kala Venkata Rao who was bubbling with patriotic enthusiasm responded to this call; gave up his studies and jumped into the fray.<br />
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==Marriage==<br />
Rao married Rajeswaramma, the daughter of Duvvuri Venkateswarulu, then the village ''munsiff'' of Mukkamala, on 20 April 1914. His father-in-law was a great patriot, philanthropist and gentleman. He is related to [[Sripada Krishnamurty Sastry]], the first poet laureate of Andhra Pradesh and [[Bouloussou Soubramanion Sastroulou]], politician from French [[Yanam]] through their wives and Sripada Venkata Ratnamba (née Kala) and Bouloussou Souryapracassamma (née Kala), respectively.<br />
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==Politics==<br />
Rao was a freedom fighter and joined the [[Indian National Congress]]. He was elected as M.L.A. from [[Amalapuram (SC) (Assembly constituency)|Amalapuram assembly constituency (general)]] located in [[East Godavari]] district of [[Madras presidency]] in [[1937 Madras Presidency Legislative Assembly election|1937 Legislative election]]<ref>p. 289, The Who's who in Madras, Issue 9, Pearl Press, 1937.</ref> and [[1946 Madras Presidency Legislative Assembly election|1946 Legislative election]]. He held cabinet ministries during tenures of [[Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar]] and [[P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja|Kumaraswamy Raja]]. He was also a member of [[Indian Constituent Assembly]] elected from [[Madras Presidency]]. He was member of 7-member [[Partition of India|Partition]] Committee which was set up on 7 December 1949 by then Madras Government for the formation of [[Andhra State]] out of [[Madras State]].<ref>https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/102829/11/11_chapter-vi.pdf</ref> The committee was set up under the Chairmanship of [[P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja|Kumaraswamy Raja]], the then [[List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu|Chief Minister]] of [[Madras Presidency]], wherein [[Andhra Pradesh|Andhra]] was represented by other members along with him such as [[Tanguturi Prakasam]], [[Bezawada Gopala Reddy]] and [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]. However, he was runner-up from Amalapuram constituency in [[1952 Madras Legislative Assembly election|1952 election]], where he lost to Nadimpalli Ramabhadra Raju of [[KMPP]]. He was also member of [[All India Congress Committee|AICC]].<ref>Congress hand-book, 1946, By Indian National Congress</ref> Later, [[Andhra state]] formed in 1953 and Amalapuram constituency became single seat reserved one. He then got as M.L.A. elected from nearby [[Kothapeta (Assembly constituency)|Kothapeta constituency]] in [[1955 Andhra State Legislative Assembly election|1953 election]].<br />
==Death==<br />
Rao died on 28 March 1959 in [[Hyderabad]] from [[cardiac arrest]] while he was recovering from [[influenza]]. The Speaker of the [[Lok Sabha]], [[M. A. Ayyangar]], while paying homage to Rao called him "one of the stalwart statesmen of Andhra Pradesh".<ref name="death">{{cite news |title=Kala Venkata Rao Passes Away |work=The Indian Express |date=29 March 1959 |page=1}}</ref><br />
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==Offices held==<br />
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{{succession box | before=K. Koti Reddi |title=[[Minister of Revenue (Madras Presidency)|Minister of Revenue]] of [[Madras Presidency]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCZYAAAAMAAJ |title=Justice Party golden jubilee souvenir, 1968 - Google Boeken |date=5 June 2010 |accessdate=4 August 2013}}</ref>| after=H. Sitarama Reddi|years=23 March 1947&nbsp;– 24 January 1949}}<br />
{{succession box | before= [[A. B. Shetty]]|title=[[Minister of Health]] of [[Madras State]]| after=[[A. B. Shetty]]|years=26 September 1951&nbsp;– 9 April 1952}}<br />
{{succession box | before= Post Created|title=Minister of Land Reforms of [[Andhra Pradesh]]| after=Post Ceased|years=11 November 1956&nbsp;– 28 March 1959}}<br />
{{succession box | before= Post Created|title=[[Minister of Finance]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]]| after=[[Bezawada Gopala Reddy]]|years=11 November 1956&nbsp;– 16 April 1957}}<br />
{{succession box | before= Post Created|title=[[Minister of Revenue (Andhra Pradesh)|Minister of Revenue]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]]| after=[[K. V. Ranga Reddy]]|years=17 April 1957&nbsp;– 28 March 1959}}<br />
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{{succession box | before= -|title=[[General Secretary]] of [[Indian National Congress]]| after= -|years=January 1949–September 1951}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[1946 Madras Presidency legislative assembly election]]<br />
*[[1952 Madras State legislative assembly election]]<br />
*[[Bouloussou Soubramanion Sastroulou]]<br />
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