Kadiyam Srihari

Kadiyam Srihari (born 8 July 1952) is an Indian politician is currently the MLA from the Ghanpur Station Assembly constituency. He also served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana and Minister for Education of Telangana from 2014 to 2018. He was also an MLC in the Telangana Legislative Council. He was a member of the Lok Sabha, representing the Warangal constituency from 2014-2015.

In the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly elections, Kadiyam contested as a member of the BRS party, from the Ghanpur Station Assembly Constituency and won the seat. He later joined the Congress party on 31 March 2024.

Personal life Kadiyam Srihari was born in Parvathagiri, a village in the Warangal district. He attended Zilla Parishad High School in Warangal and, then was awarded a B.Sc. from the Arts and Science College in the same city. In 1975, he got a M.Sc. from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Political career Kadiyam entered politics in February 1987 when he was asked by N. T. Rama Rao to join the Telugu Desam Party and contest for the position of mayor of Warangal Municipal Corporation. He served as chairman for the Kakatiya Urban Development Authority, Warangal in 1988. He was the district president for TDP in Warangal from 1987 to 1994.

In 2004, Kadiyam lost the general election contest in Station Ghanpur to TRS floor leader Dr. G. Vijayrama Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He won a by-election from the same constituency in 2008.

He played a crucial role in getting the pro-Telangana letter from the TDP party and also represented TDP in an all-party meeting held in New Delhi.

Kadiyam announced his resignation from the TDP at Warangal on 11 May 2013, expressing displeasure over the party's ambivalent stand on the Telangana statehood issue. He formally joined the TRS, which supported statehood for the Telangana region, on 15 May 2013. He served as the Member of Parliament from Warangal Parliamentary Constituency and later took oath as a cabinet minister in Telangana government on 25 January 2015 as a deputy chief minister and education minister. He served until 12 December 2018.

On 11 June 2015, he resigned as a Lok Sabha MP as he was elected as a member of the legislative council (MLC) and as a minister in Telangana government. He served in the position from 2015 until 2023.

In the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly elections, he defeated Indira Singapuram of INC by 7779 votes, to become the MLA for the Ghanpur (Station) Assembly Constituency. He switched parties and joined the Indian National Congress on 31 March 2024, in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and AICC in-charge Deepa Dasmunshi. 2 1999 Dr. T. Rajaiah (INC) 50080 - 45520 4560 3 2004 GUNDE VIJAYA RAMA RAO (TRS) 43501- 63221 -19720 4 2008 - ByPoll GUNDE VIJAYA RAMA RAO (TRS) 5 2009 Dr. T. Rajaiah (INC) 56952 - 68162 -11210 6 2012 - ByPoll Dr. T. Rajaiah (TRS) 81279 - 48641 -32638 7 2014 MP

Warangal Rajaiah Siricilla (INC) 6,61,639 - 2,69,065 3,92,574 8 2015 MLC Assembly Constituency 9 2023 MLA

Ghanpur (Station) Singapuram Indira (INC) 7779