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{{Short description|Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and politician (born 1907)}}
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| citizenship = [[India]]
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| profession = Advocate<ref name="Parliament" />
| office = [[Karnataka Legislative Council|Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council]]<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council">{{cite web |title=Rama Rao MV |url=https://kla.kar.nic.in/council/members/exmembers/RamaRaoMV.htm |website=Karnataka Legislative Council |access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref>
| term_start = 1972
| term_end = 1978
| constituency = Mysore South East - Graduates Constituency
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| office1 = [[Minister of State]] for Home<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />
| term_start1 = 7 June 1965
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| office2 = [[Minister of State]] for Law<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />
| term_start2 = 14 March 1962
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| office3 = [[Karnataka Legislative Council|Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council]]<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />
| term_start3 = 1960
| term_end3 = 1972
| constituency3 = Mysore South - Graduates Constituency
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| office4 = [[Minister of State]] for Home<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />
| term_start4 = 1 November 1956
| term_end4 = 19 April 1957
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| office5 = [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly]]<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />
| term_start5 = 1952
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'''MV Rama Rao''' (24{{nbsp}}August 1907) was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and politician. He practiced at the [[Karnataka High Court|Mysore High Court]]. He served in the [[Constituent Assembly of India]], [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]], and later the [[Karnataka Legislative Council]]. He was a member of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" /><ref name="Parliament" />

== Early life ==

MV Rama Rao was born to C Vasudeva Rao, on 24 August 1907, at [[Tumkur]], [[Mysore State]]. He went to college at [[Central College, Bangalore]] obtaining a [[Bachelor in Arts|BA]], and later obtained a degree in law (LLB) from [[Government Law College, Mumbai]]. After college, he enrolled as a lawyer at the [[Karnataka High Court|Mysore High Court]] in 1934.

In 1942, he became President of the Tumkur Bar Association, from 1942 to 1944 was President of the [[Tumkur Municipal Council]], and in 1941 and 1945 was President of the Tumkur Town Congress Committee. During the [[Quit India Movement]] and larger [[Indian independence movement]], he was imprisoned three times for participating in [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] activities, in 1942, 1943 and 1947. When imprisoned in 1942, he was at [[Freedom Park, Bengaluru|Bangalore Central Jail]].<ref name="The Indian Express">{{cite news |title=Know your city: Freedom Park, a Bengaluru landmark and its link to India's freedom struggle |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/know-your-city-freedom-park-bengaluru-landmark-freedom-struggle-8018719/ |access-date=20 March 2025 |publisher=The Indian Express |date=9 July 2022}}</ref>

He was elected to the Mysore Representative Assembly in 1945, the Senate of the [[University of Mysore]] in 1948, and the [[Constituent Assembly of India|Constituent Assembly]] from Mysore in 1948. During the Provisional Parliament of India, he represented Mysore from 1950 to 1952.

== Political career ==

In 1952, he won the first legislative assembly election from [[Tumkur Assembly constituency|Tumkur]] and served as an MLA in the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Mysore State Assembly]] until 1957. From 1955 to 1956, he was the General Secretary of the [[Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee|Mysore Congress]]. He served as the Home Minister for Mysore from 1 November 1956 to 19 April 1957, in the [[Second Nijalingappa ministry|Nijalingappa cabinet]].<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />

From 1960 to 1978, he served as a Member of the [[Karnataka Legislative Council]]. While an MLC, he was appointed as the Minister of Law in 14 March 1962 and the Minister of Home in 7 June 1965.<ref name="Karnataka Legislative Council" />

== References ==
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