D.V. Rao

D.V. Rao in 1957Devulapalli Venkateswara Rao (1 June 1917 – 12 July 1984) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the 2nd Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nalgonda constituency of Telangana.

D.V. Rao was born in Ingurthi village, Warangal District on 1 June 1917, son of Devulapalli Varada Rao. His family hailed from Bandameedi Chandupatla village, Suryapet taluk, Nalgonda District. D.V. Rao was the youngest member of the CPI before the 1964 split. In April 1975 D.V. Rao and T. Nagi Reddy founded the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist–Leninist) (UCCRI(ML)). In 1974 D.V. Rao's Telangana Armed Struggle and the Path of Indian Revolution was published in English and Telugu. The pamphlet was a review of P. Sundarayya's work Telangana People’s Struggle and its Lessons. In the late 1970s, he became the founding editor of The Proletarian Line.

D.V. Rao died on 12 July 1984. His work The History of the People’s Armed Struggle of Telangana (1946-51) Volume-I was published in Telugu posthumously in 1988, the book covers the history of the Telangana struggle up to the 1948 Police Action.