| Vanama Venkateswara Rao వనమా వెంకటేశ్వరరావు | |
| Birth Date: | 1944 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Palvancha |
| Residence: | Palvancha |
| Constituency: | Kothagudem |
| Office: | Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly |
| Term: | 2018–2023 |
| Predecessor: | Jalagam Venkat Rao |
| Successor: | Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao |
| Party: | Telangana Rashtra Samithi |
| Children: | Raghavendra Rao, Ramakrishna |
Vanama Venkateswara Rao is a politician from Telangana state and a member of the Legislative Assembly constituency of Kothagudem.[1]
Venkateswara Rao was elected as a MLA from Kothagudem for the first time in 1989. He later represented the constituency in 1999 and 2004, besides serving as a minister in the cabinet of former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy in 2008.[2] In the Telangana general elections of 2018, he contested on an Indian National Congress party ticket and won with a majority of 4120 votes over the nearest Telangana Rashtra Samithi party candidate Jalagam Venkat Rao.[3] He resigned from the Congress Party after the 2018 elections and joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party.[4]