Kanuri Lakshmana Rao
Kanuru Lakshmana Rao (15 July 1902 – 18 May 1986) was an Indian Civil engineer and a Padma Bhushan awardee who served as the Union Minister of Irrigation & Power and Member of Parliament for Vijayawada from 1962 to 1977. == Personal life and education == Rao was born in a Telugu Niyogi brahmin family in Kankipadu, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh.