[1][2] He is the former secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti Andhra Pradesh unit.
Later he became a full-time worker of the party and was forced to go underground when the police cracked down on the movement.
Kura Rajaiah alias Rajanna, a native of Boinwada in Vemulawada temple town, is an engineering graduate from Osmania University.
His wife, Rangavalli who herself a leader in the party cadre, died in an encounter on 11 November 1999.
Amar alias Kura Devender, state committee secretary, who represented Janashakti in the abortive peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh government in October 2004, is the brother of Rajanna.