 Burgula Ramakrishna Rao

Dr. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (13 March 1899 – 15 September 1967) was the first elected Chief Minister of the erstwhile Hyderabad State.Prior to the independence of India and the political integration of the princely states into the Union, he was among the Telugu-speaking leaders to resist the Nizam in the princely state of Hyderabad.Burgula Ramakrishna Rao was born in a Telugu Brahmin family in Padakallu village, Kalwakurthy "taluk" in Mahbubnagar district.