Kona Prabhakara Rao

Who was Kona Prabhakara Rao?

Kona Prabhakara Rao was born on 10 July 1916 in Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and the Former Governor of Maharashtra. He died on October 20, 1990, at National Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad due to cardio-respiratory failure

He did most of his schooling in his native place Bapatla, and then graduated from the Loyola College, Madras and completed his law degree from the I.L.S. Law College, Pune.

At the age of 16, Rao conducted boycott of schools when late Motilal Nehru died. He was a social and political worker and took active part in the Salt Satyagraha movement and Quit India Movement of 1942. In Bapatla he organised a youth league and propagated using of Khadi.