Koneru Ranga Rao former deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh passed away after a prolonged illness at the Apollo Hospital Jubillee Hills here on Monday. He was suffering from pneumonia for the last couple of months and was shifted to Hyderabad in during last week for advanced medicare.
He was 74. He is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Hailing from Gudavalli village in Krishna district , Koneru served the Congress party for more than four decades. He held various portfolios as a minister and worked under four chief ministers.
He was first a elected to the assembly from Kankipadu Assembly constituency in 1978 and later on from Thruvuru Assembly constituency in 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2004.
Koneru Ranga Rao faced the heat during Rajasekhar Reddy’s rule when he was the minister. The opposition TDP leaders alleged that his grandson was the person behind the death of Ayesha, a Muslim girl who hails from a village near Vijayawada.