P. Shankar Rao

Dr. P. Shankar Rao is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. He is a representative of the Indian National Congress Party and as of January 2012 has been elected on five occasions as a Member of a Legislative Assembly in India. He is presently representing Secunderabad-Cantonment constituency. Rao was first elected in 1983, as a candidate for the Shadnagar constituency. He was subsequently re-elected for that constituency on three more occasions. He served as Irrigation Minister in Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy's cabinet. Along with Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, he had a role as Deputy CLP Leader when the party was in the opposition. He was elected by the voters of the Secunderabad Cantonment Constituency in 2009, this being...