Vanama Venkateswara Rao is a politician from Telangana state and a member of the Legislative Assembly constituency of Kothagudem.
He has 4 children namely, Raghavendra Rao, Rama Krishna Rao, Srimanthula Aruna and Adika Vijaya Lakshmi
Venkateswara Rao was elected as a MLA from Kothagudem for the first time in 1989. He later represented the constituency in 1999 and 2004, besides serving as a minister in the cabinet of former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy in 2008. In the Telangana general elections of 2018, he contested on an Indian National Congress party ticket and won with a majority of 4120 votes over the nearest Telangana Rashtra Samithi party candidate Jalagam Venkat Rao. He resigned from the Congress Party after the 2018 elections and joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party.