C. Vidyasagar Rao

C. Vidyasagar Rao
Official Portrait, 2014
21st Governor of Maharashtra
In office 30 August 2014 – 4 September 2019[1]
Chief Ministers	Prithviraj Chavan (until 2014) Devendra Fadnavis (2014 - 2019)
Deputy CM	Ajit Pawar (until 2014)
Preceded by	Om Prakash Kohli (additional charge)
Succeeded by	B. S. Koshyari
Governor of Tamil Nadu
(Additional Charge)
In office 2 September 2016 – 6 October 2017
Chief Minister	J. Jayalalithaa O. Panneerselvam Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Deputy Chief Minister	O. Panneerselvam
Preceded by	K. Rosaiah
Succeeded by	Banwarilal Purohit
Minister of state in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
In office 29 January 2003 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Sukhbir Singh Badal
Succeeded by	Jairam Ramesh
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
In office 13 October 1999 – 29 January 2003
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister	L. K. Advani
Succeeded by	Shakeel Ahmad
Member of the Indian Parliament for Karimnagar
In office 1998–2004
Preceded by	L. Ramana
Succeeded by	Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao
Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Metpally
In office 1985-1998
Personal details
Born	Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao (1941-02-12) 12 February 1941 (age 83) Nagaram, Hyderabad State, British India (now in Telangana, India)
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Vinoda Rao
Relatives	Chennamaneni Rajeshwara Rao (brother) C. H. Hanumantha Rao (brother)

Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao (born 12 February 1941) is an Indian politician from Telangana, associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Governor of Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he had served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1999. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and 1999 (13th Lok Sabha) from Karimnagar (Lok Sabha constituency).