
He led the Indian delegation of lawyers to the Soviet Union (1983) and was a member of the official delegation of lawyers to China led by the Attorney-General (1990). Rao participated in several seminars and conferences including the SAARC Law conferences, International Bar Association, Law Asia and Conferences of Commonwealth Law Association. Rao, senior advocate, as jurist member of the selection committee of the Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman. President Pranab Mukherjee has given his nod for the nomination of P.P.

He had led the arguments on behalf of States of MP and Andhra Pradesh. He successfully defended the constitutional validity of Entry Tax before a nine Judge Bench of the Supreme Court in 2016. Representing the National Human Rights Commission, he persuaded the Supreme Court to intervene directly in the Best Bakery case in which Fast Track Court had acquitted all the accused.
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Kapoor's case (2001) for the voters' right to information about the antecedents of contesting candidates in the PUCL case appearing for Lok Satta (2003) for Government's power of regulation of admissions to professional courses for preventing exploitation of students by private institutions in T.M.A. Narasimha Rao's case (1998) for the Governor's power to appoint a Chief Minister who is not a member of the Legislature, but enjoying majority support while her appeal against conviction was pending in B.R. Unnikrishnan's case (1993) for the privileges of members of parliament in P.V. He successfully fought against capitation fees in educational institutions in J.P. Rao appeared in several other leading cases involving interpretation of the Constitution. The judgement is reported as SR Bommai v Union of India, (1994) 3 SCC 1 = AIR 1994 SC 1918. The Supreme Court upheld all the four Proclamations. Rao conceived, developed and presented the argument based on secularism which is part of the basic structure of the Constitution and convinced the Court that all the four BJP Governments had acted in concert and violated the basic feature of secularism by mobilising, encouraging and supporting the Kar Sevaks who demolished Babri Masjid. When these proclamations were challenged in the Supreme Court by lawyers such as Soli Sorabjee, Ram Jethmalani, Shanti Bhushan and others who generally represented the opposition parties, Rao defended the Proclamations representing the States of Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh which were then under President's Rule. Soon after demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992, President's Rule was imposed in the four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states, viz., Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. Contribution to the development of law in India (Honoris Causa) in recognition of his eminence and contributions to the cause of public interest. He was elected the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 1991, and in 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He was Advocate-on-Record for the State of Andhra Pradesh and a Junior Standing Counsel for the Central Government before he was designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in August 1976. In February 1969, he became an Advocate-on-Record.


During this time he assisted leading lawyers of the time like H.M. NC Chatterjee left for Kolkata, due his ailing health in 1967, he joined the chambers of his former teacher, Shri Raja Vasudev Pillai, Senior Advocate. Chatterjee, Senior Advocate and Parliamentarian. He was enrolled as an Advocate by the Bar Council of Delhi in 1967 and thereafter started practice in the Supreme Court. Rao started his career teaching law in the University of Delhi in 1961. College, Nellore, Andhra University and his LL.B. He was born on 5 August 1933, in Mogalicherla Village, Lingasamudram Mandal in the Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh.
