Career
He was the Minister of Textiles at Ministry of Textiles, with cabinet rank, for India in Universal Postal Union Government from 17 June 2013. He is permanent invitee for Congress Working Committee. Earlier he represented Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh.
Kavuri is business entrepreneur in the fields of civil construction and health care.
He was elected to Indian Parliament for fives times and member in parliament committee. He has sworn in as Union Cabinet minister for Textiles on 17 June 2013.
Former union minister Kavuri Sambasiva Rao on Monday id est (that is) 28 April 2014 resigned from the Congress and announced his decision to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Rao, who resigned as the minister earlier this month, Rao resigned from the cabinet on 3 April to protest bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
He has also announced that he would not contest the Lok Sabha polls on Congress ticket.