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R. Krishnaiah
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
SpouseShabari Devi
ChildrenRishi Arun,Rani Shweta devi

Ryaga Krishnaiah (born 13 September 1954), known as R. Krishnaiah, is a leader of Congress and elected as MLA representing for L.B. Nagar constituency in the year 2014. He had been fighting from the last 35 years for the rights of Backward Classes and their upliftment in standard of living through reservations in politics, education, and law. He led the protestations along with agitations and fought not only with 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.
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