Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah | |
Birth Date: | 18 June 1921 |
Birth Place: | Sanjamala, Banganapalle, Kurnool District, Madras Presidency, British India (Now Andhra Pradesh, India) |
Death Place: | Hyderabad, India |
Office: | Governor of Bihar |
Term: | 15 March 1985 – 25 February 1988 |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Bindeshwari Dubey Bhagwat Jha Azad |
Predecessor: | Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai |
Successor: | Govind Narain Singh |
Office2: | Governor of Karnataka |
Term Start2: | 26 February 1987 |
Term End2: | 5 February 1990 |
Predecessor2: | Ashoknath Banerji |
Successor2: | Bhanu Pratap Singh |
Office3: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency4: | Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh |
Term Start3: | 1957 |
Term End3: | 1977 |
Predecessor3: | Rayasam Seshagiri Rao |
Successor3: | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
Term Start4: | 1977 |
Term End4: | 1984 |
Predecessor4: | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
Successor4: | Maddur Subba Reddy |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Spouse: | Kanakamma, |
Source: | https://loksabha.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1408.htm |
Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (18 June 1921 – 12 October 1993) was an Indian politician. He was the Governor of Bihar from 15 March 1985 to 25 February 1988 and the Governor of Karnataka, India from 26 February 1988 to 5 February 1990.[1] He was elected to the Lok Sabha and was the Union Minister of State for Home and Parliamentary Affairs in both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi cabinet.[2] [3] [4]
Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah was born on 18 June 1921 into an affluent family of agriculturists at Sanjamala, a village in the erstwhile Princely State of Banaganapalli in Madras Presidency, British India.
Venkatasubbaiah founded the Vasavi Academy of Education, an organisation which runs several educational institutions including the Vasavi College of Engineering, Pendekanti Law College, and Vasavi High School.
Venkatasubbaiah died in Hyderabad on 12 October 1993, at the age of 72.[5]