He couldn't pursue further education after matriculation due to financial difficulties so he started working at Hyderabad Allwyn for a daily wage of 4 anna (equal to 24 paisa).

[6] T. Anjaiah was nominated by the then ruling party Indian National Congress to replace Marri Chenna Reddy as Chief Minister on 11 October 1980.

[7] This "Airbus cabinet", as Anjaiah dubbed it, was claimed to be a way to ensure all regions of the state would have equal access to development, but was widely mocked as an example of mere patronage and became a source of embarrassment for the central government.

Finding it initially difficult to shrink the cabinet, he eventually took the step of asking all ministers to resign in January 1981.

The two young uprising politicians at that time, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and N. Chandrababu Naidu, gained importance during Anjaiah's term as Chief Minister.

Having previously been mocked for a similarly extravagant arrival at the Indian Youth Congress meeting in Bangalore a few weeks earlier, an angry Rajiv was disgusted by the pomp and pageantry and the euphoric, dancing crowd beating drums outside the airport.

[15] The incident was noted to be crucial in the Congress Party tasting its first-ever defeat in Andhra Pradesh in the 1983 Assembly elections.

C. Jagannath Rao, who served in his cabinet as a home minister recalls him as, "Whatever one may say against him, his remarkable simplicity endeared him to the people.

T. Anjaiah's earliest act as Chief Minister was to conduct elections for the Panchayati Raj bodies and Municipalities.

[21] The idea of making the film on Tanguturi Prakasam came to Vijayachander on the motivation by T. Anjaiah in one of his speeches, that Government would provide financial assistance to such ventures.

Rajasekhara Reddy unveiled the statue of former Chief Minister late T. Anjaiah at Lumbini Park, opposite Secretariat in 2006.