Velagapalli Varaprasada Rao, is an Indian politician and a sitting Member of Parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Tirupati (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh.
He won the Indian general election, 2014 being a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party candidate.
Dr.
V V Rao was born 15 May 1953.
He is an IAS officer from the 1983 batch of the Tamilnadu Cadre.
During his tenure in the civil services, he held several top positions, including that of Principal Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
In 2009, he opted for voluntary retirement to join politics and serve the people of his native state, Andhra Pradesh.
In 2019 assembly election, Dr.
V Varaprasada Rao elected as an MLA for Gudur Constituency in Andhra Pradesh (AP).
He represents the YSRCP party.
Formerly, he was an MP from the Tirupati Constituency.
He resigned from this post last year as the Central Government denied special category status to AP.