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| birth_date = {{birth date |1929|8|3|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bheemunipatnam|Bhiminupatnam]], [[Visakhapatnam District]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]<small>(Now in [[Andhra Pradesh]], India)</small><br />
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|9|3|1929|8|3|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/government-press-release/president-of-india-condoles-the-passing-away-of-dr-m-s-sanjeevi-rao-114090400856_1.html | title=President of India condoles the passing away of Dr. M.S. Sanjeevi Rao | publisher=Business Standard | date=4 September 2014 | accessdate=6 January 2021}}</ref><br />
| death_place = Kakinada<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]<br />
| term_start = 1971<br />
| term_end = 1984<br />
| predecessor = [[Mosalikanti Thirumala Rao]]<br />
| successor = [[Gopal Krishna Thota]]<br />
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| constituency1 = [[Kakinada (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kakinada]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
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| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
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| children = 2, including [[M. M. Pallam Raju]]<br />
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| alma_mater = [[College of Engineering, Guindy]], [[Imperial College of Science and Technology]]<br />
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'''M. S. Sanjeevi Rao''' (1929{{En dash}}2014) was an Indian politician who served as a Union Minister and chairman of India's first electronics commission. He is referred to as "India’s father of electronics".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Dey |first=Soumik |date=31 March 2018 |title=A tribute to MS Sanjeevi Rao, India's father of electronics |url=https://www.theweek.in/leisure/society/2018/03/31/tribute-ms-sanjeevi-rao-india-father-electronics.html |access-date=2021-07-13 |website=[[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] |language=en}}</ref> He was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] from the [[Kakinada (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kakinada]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]] from the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1NPAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=28 December 2017|year=1984|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=101}}</ref><ref name="ReddiRam1994">{{cite book|author1=Agarala Easwara Reddi|author2=D. Sundar Ram|title=State Politics in India: Reflections on Andhra Pradesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaxxeoPUuqsC&pg=PA338|accessdate=28 December 2017|year=1994|publisher=M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.|isbn=978-81-85880-51-8|pages=338–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1NPAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 February 2019|year=1984|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Economic and Political Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SoYAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 February 2019|year=1984|publisher=Sameeksha Trust.|pages=585–586}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
M. S. Sanjeevi Rao was born in a [[Kapu (caste)|Kapu]] family in 1929.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Sankar |first=K. N. Murali |date=2019-03-26 |title=Battle equally poised in port town Kakinada |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/battle-equally-poised-in-port-town/article26646430.ece |access-date=2023-04-08 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> His father was an [[List of Indian independence activists|Indian independence activist]]. He studied electronics and telecommunications at the [[Imperial College London]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
After returning to India, he started working at the [[All India Radio]]. Later, he joined the Defence Research and Development Organisation. He was posted at the [[Electronics and Radar Development Establishment|Electronic and Radar Development Establishment]], Bengaluru, and then at the Defence Research Electronics Laboratory, Hyderabad.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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=== Political career ===<br />
Rao entered politics after his father's death. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, and later appointed minister in Indira Gandhi's cabinet.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Rao had two children, including [[M. M. Pallam Raju]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://sansad.in/ls/members/biography/2213?from=amembers&former=1&profileURL=https://lssapi.nic.in/MemberProfile/biodata_1_12/2213.htm Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]<br />
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