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'''Neerukonda Venkata Rama Rao''' (died 4 May 1955) was an Indian politician.<br />
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Rao participated in the [[salt satyagraha]] at the age of 16.<ref name=a/> He was an active member of the [[Indian National Congress]], but broke with the party in 1951 and joined the [[Krishikar Lok Party]].<ref name=a/> Rao won one of the two [[Burugupudi]] seats in the [[1955 Andhra State Legislative Assembly election]], obtaining 54% of the votes.<ref name=a/><ref name="FisherBondurant1956"/><ref name="(India)1979">{{cite book|author=Andhra Pradesh (India)|title=Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers: East Godavari|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yk5uAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press|page=422}}</ref> When the KLP merged with the Congress Party, Rao again became a Congress member.<ref name=a/><br />
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On 28 March 1955 he sworn in as Minister of Agriculture and Forestsin the [[Andhra State]] cabinet of [[B. Gopala Reddy]].<ref name=a/><ref name="Zaidi1990">{{cite book|author=A. Moin Zaidi|title=The Story of Congress Pilgrimage: 1940-1955|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUSKAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Indian Institute of Applied Political Research|page=409|isbn=9788185355467}}</ref> He was unable to attend the first session of the Andhra State Legislative Assembly, as he had fallen ill during a visit to [[Madras]].<ref name=a/> He died from heart problems at [[Government General Hospital, Chennai|Madras General Hospital]] on 4 May 1955, at the age of 41.<ref name="Zaidi1990"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Recorder & Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JncPAQAAIAAJ|year=1955|page=27}}</ref><ref name=a>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=binwXobz-4oC|year=1955|publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press|pages=104, 204}}</ref> Following his death, [[1955 Burugupudi by-election|a by-election was held]] in which Congress candidate [[Neerukonda Venkatarathnam]] was elected unopposed.<ref name="e">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls Bye-election results 1952-95]'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111183847/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls |date=11 January 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder, Vol. 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cMTAAAAIAAJ|year=1955|page=326}}</ref><ref name="FisherBondurant1956">{{cite book|author1=Margaret Welpley Fisher|author2=Joan Valérie Bondurant|title=The Indian experience with democratic elections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wg82AAAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=University of California|page=4}}</ref><br />
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