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

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and Minister for Education of Telangana from 2014 to 2018. He was also an MLC in the

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. He was a

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, representing the Warangal constituency from 2014-2015. In the

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s, Kadiyam contested as a member of the BRS party, from the Ghanpur Station Assembly Constituency and won the seat. He later joined the

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party on 31 March 2024.

Personal life

Kadiyam Srihari was born in Parvathagiri, a village in the

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. He attended Zilla Parishad High School in

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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

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. He is married to K. Vinaya Rani, and has 3 daughters with her. One of his daughters, Kadiyam Kavya is a member of

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. He was a manager for

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in Nizamabad, where he worked from 1975 until 1977. He then became a teacher, working as a junior lecturer between 1977 and 1987. During this period, he served as the District President for the Government Junior Lecturers Association in Warangal and also as the State Secretary for the same body in

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Political career

Kadiyam entered politics in February 1987 when he was asked by N. T. Rama Rao to join the

Telugu Desam Party The Telugu Desam Party (TDP; ) is an Indian regional political party primarily active in the Federated state, states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It was founded by Telugu cinema, Telugu matinée idol N. T. Rama Rao (NTR) on 29 March 1982 a ...

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

from 1987 to 1994. Kadiyam won a seat as a MLA from Station Ghanpur constituency in 1994. He served as a minister in the cabinet of Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, handling at various times the portfolios of Marketing, Social Welfare, Education and Irrigation in the Cabinets of both Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Nara Chandrababu Naidu. In 2004, Kadiyam lost the general election contest in Station Ghanpur to TRS floor leader Dr. G. Vijayrama Rao of the

Telangana Rashtra Samithi The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (; BRS), formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS), is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in the state of Telangana and currently the primary opposition party in the state. It was founde ...

. 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 is a politburo member in the TRS state committee and also chairman of training classes programmer for Telangana cadre. He is the chairman of TRS manifesto committee and played a crucial role in representing the aspirations of various sectors of people. He was chosen as deputy chief minister and education minister of the state of Telangana on 25 January 2015. 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 ministry in Telangana government. He served in the position from 2015 until 2023. In the

s, 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

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on 31 March 2024, in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and AICC in-charge Deepa Dasmunshi.

Positions held

* Minister for Irrigation,

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* Minister for Social Welfare, United Andhra Pradesh * Minister for Education,

and United Andhra Pradesh * Minister for Marketing, United Andhra Pradesh (1995-2004) * Deputy CM of Telangana

Political statistics

References

External links

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Shri. Kadiyam Srihari Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Srihari, Kadiyam 1952 births Living people Bharat Rashtra Samithi politicians Lok Sabha members from Telangana India MPs 2014–2019 People from Hanamkonda district Deputy chief ministers of Telangana Members of the Telangana Legislative Council Former members of Telugu Desam Party Education ministers of Telangana