Kadiyam Srihari

Kadiyam Srihari (born 8 July 1952) is an Indian politician is currently the MLA from the Ghanpur Station Assembly constituency.

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.

[3] 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.

[4] In 2004, Kadiyam lost the general election contest in Station Ghanpur to TRS floor leader Dr. G. Vijayrama Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

[1][7] 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.

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.

[12] 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.