Sri Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah, one of the veteran statesmen of Independent India,
held many important positions in his lifetime. He served in the capacities of the
Union Minister of State for Home & Parliamentary Affairs (1980-84), the Governor
of Bihar and later, of Karnataka.
Sri Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah was born in an affluent family of agriculturists
on 18th June, 1921 at Sanjamala, a village in the erstwhile Princely State of Banaganapalli
in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh. He took keen interest in the national movement
while he was a student in Nandyal which constituency he represented subsequently
for 27 years in Lok Sabha. He dedicated himself to the national movement and fought
against oppression, braving imprisonment.