Background
Kadiyam Srihari was born in Parvathagiri, a village in the Warangal district.
politician member of the Lok Sabha
Kadiyam Srihari was born in Parvathagiri, a village in the Warangal district.
He attended Zilla Parishat High School in Warangal and, then was awarded a B.Sc from the Arts and Science College in the same city.
He was Ex-Modern Language Association from Ghanpur(Station) Constituency and Ex-Minister in the cabinets of North.T.Rama Rao and North.Chandra Babu Naidu. He was the Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh from 1995 to 2004 in Marketing,Social Welfare later Education and later Irrigation under the Cabinet of Nara Chandrababu Naidu. He joined party and is its politburo member.
He took oath as cabinet minister in Telangana government on 25 January 2015 as a Deputy Chief Minister and also Education Minister
In 1975, he got a M.Sc from Osmania University, Hyderabad,
Srihari began his professional career as a manager for Syndicate Bank in Nizamabad, where he worked between 1975-1977.
He then became a teacher, working as a junior lecturer between 1977-1987). 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 Andhra Pradesh.
He contested for the position of mayor of Warangal Municipal Corporation. He served as Chairman for Kakatiya Urban Development Authority, Warangal in 1988.
He was the District President for TDP in Warangal district from 1987-1994.
He served as minister in the cabinet of Rao, handling at various times the portfolios of Marketing, Social Welfare, Education and Irrigation in the Cabinets of both Rao and Nara Chandrababu Naidu. In 2004, Srihari lost the general election contest in Station Ghanpur to Doctor Vijaya Rama Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He also lost a by-election from the same constituency in 2008.
Srihari 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, which supported statehood for the Telangana region, on 15 May 2013. He is a Political Bureau member in the state committee and also Chairman of training classes programmer for Telangana cadre.
He is the chairman of manifesto committee and played a crucial role in representing the aspirations of various sectors of people. With his vast experience as minister in the past, he was chosen as deputy chief minister and education minister of state of Telangana.
Minister for Irrigation
Minister for Social Welfare
Minister for Education
Minister for Marketing
Minister for Education.
He joined politics in February 1987 when he was asked by Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao to join the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). He played a crucial role in getting pro-Telangana letter from TDP party and also represented TDP in an all-party meeting held in New Delhi.
He is Member of Parliament from Warangal constituency from State of Telangana. He was the PolitBureau member of TDP, and the General Secretary of Telugu Desam party(TDP). He served as the Member of Parliament from Warangal Parliamentary Constituency and later took oath as cabinet minister in Telangana government on 25 January 2015 as a Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister.
On June 11, 2015,He resigned for Member of parliament as he was offered a ministry in Telangana government because he was elected as MLC(Member of legislative counsil).