Kona Prabhakara Rao
Shri Kona Prabhakara Rao was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Indian National Congress party and was elected four times as Member of the Legislative Assembly from Bapatla (Assembly constituency).
Shri Prabhakar Rao was born in Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, into a wealthy Telugu Niyogi Brahmin family in Bapatla. He was a social and political worker and took active part in the Salt Satyagraha movement and Quit India Movement of 1942.
He was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1967 and later in 1972 and 1978. He was Speaker of the Assembly during 1980-81.
On 17 June 1984 he assumed the office of the Governor of Sikkim, and then succeeded Air Chief Marshal I. H. Latif, as the Governor of Maharashtra, on 30 May 1985.
In the area of education as the founder of the Bapatla Education Society he ensured several institutions evolved in his home town. He was responsible for bringing Krishna River water to the town of Bapatla, which ensured a lot of progression in the area of agriculture which was a prominent means of living for the town.
Shri Prabhakara Rao passed away on 20th October 1990, at National Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.