[3] In his political journey, Rajaiah started as a member of the Indian National Congress but later joined the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party to support the separate Telangana state movement.

[4] He was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana state with the Department of Health and Family Welfare on 2 June 2014 along with Md.

[7] However, he chose to resign from his position as an MLA in 2011 and departed from the Congress party to extend his support to the separate Telangana state movement.

[13] Continuing his political career, Rajaiah achieved yet another victory in the 2018 assembly elections from Station Ghanpur, marking his fourth consecutive win in the constituency.

[14] Thatikonda Rajaiah was denied MLA ticket from the BRS party for 2023 Telangana legislative assembly elections.

[20] It was speculated that KCR preferred not to have his ministers make promises independently, as he wanted to take credit for all the government's schemes and programs.

[21] Bakka Judson, TPCC leader, filed a complaint with the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, alleging insult to Rajaiah.

While Rajaiah's dismissal appeared to have been on the cards for quite a time since September, 2014 when he promised a Health University for Warangal seemingly without Telangana CM Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar's direction.

Allegations of corruption against the health and medical department include irregularities in recruitment of para-medical staff and purchase of ambulance vehicles.

In a last ditch effort to defend himself, Rajaiah had written to the chief minister seeking forgiveness for his omissions and commissions, but to no avail.

The Chief Minister owed people an explanation of how and under what circumstances Dr. Rajaiah was removed and the demand for an apology for such a treatment was justified, Mr. Krishna said.