Kavuri Sambasiva Rao (born 1 October 1943) is an Indian politician, engineer and industrialist from the state of Andhra Pradesh.

[2] Rao resigned as minister and from the Congress Working Committee by opposing the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014.

He represents the Eluru constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party,[4] which he joined on 1 May 2014.

[5] On 28 April 2014 he resigned from the Indian National Congress and announced his decision to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

He has also announced that he would not contest the Lok Sabha polls on Indian National Congress ticket.