Early Life
He was born to Subbamma and Gopala krishnaya, in a Niyogi Telugu Brahmin family in a village called Vinodarayuni Palem (or Vinoda Rayudu Palem) 26 km from Ongole in prakasam dist Andhra Pradesh. When he was 11, his father died and his mother had to run a boarding house at Ongole, a profession that was looked down upon at the time.
When E. Hanumantha Rao Naidu, his teacher at school, shifted to Rajahmundry, he took Prakasam along with him as that place had better opportunities for education. He enacted in Gayopakhyanam of Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham in 1890 along with his teacher. He was interested in becoming a lawyer since childhood, Prakasam failed his matriculation examination. He however managed to go to Madras and become a second-grade pleader. Returning to Rajahmundry, he eventually became a successful lawyer. He was elected as Municipal Chairman of Rajahmundry in 1904 when he was 31 years old. This election was a tough one at that point in time.
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