R. Krishnaiah

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R. Krishnaiah
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Ex-MLA
ConstituencyL.B Nagar
Telangana Legislative Assembly
In office
2014-2018
Preceded byDevireddy Sudheer Reddy
Succeeded byDevireddy Sudheer Reddy
Personal details
Born13 January 1954
Rangareddy district, Telangana
Political partyCongress
Spouse(s)Shabari Devi
ChildrenRishi Arun,Rani Shweta devi

Ryaga Krishnaiah (born 13 September 1954), known as R. Krishnaiah, is a leader of Congress and was elected as MLA representing for L.B. Nagar constituency in the year 2014. He had been fighting for the last 35 years for the rights of Backward Classes and their upliftment in the standard of living through reservations in politics, education, and law. He led the protestations along with agitations and fought not only with the government of Andhra Pradesh but also with Central Government of India, private educational institutes managements in Andhra Pradesh either through strikes, processions, protestations, boycotting the colleges, hunger strikes, fast-unto-death protests and legally in state-level High Courts and Supreme Court of India. He also fought for social justice, reservations in schools and colleges along with scholarships for poor students to pursue education in junior, degree and university colleges. He also fought with success for the reservations in village and Mandal level elections for backward classes.


References[]

  • "Briefly: Fair deal for BC urged". The Hindu. 12 August 2005. Retrieved 9 June 2019.[dead link]
  • "The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : BC leaders clash at panel meet". web.archive.org. 1 July 2012.
  • http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/02/07/stories/2002020700850400.htm[dead link]
  • http://www.goudsinfo.com/famouspersons.htm[dead link]

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