Pydikondala Manikyala Rao (1 November 1961 – 1 August 2020) was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly for Tadepalligudem and former Endowments Minister for Andhra Pradesh (from 2014 â March 2018).
He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rao died on 1 August 2020, at a hospital in Vijayawada after having been taken ill with COVID-19 a week prior during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.