Biography
Aadi Srinivas (born 1966) in Rudrangi is an Indian politician from Telangana state. He is a member
of the Telangana Legislative Assembly from Vemulawada Assembly constituency in Rajanna Sircilla
district. He represents Indian National Congress and won the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly
election.
Early life and education
Born in 1967 in a farming family, Aadi Srinivas completed his SSC in the Zilla Parishad High School
called ‘Bandamidi Badiga’ in Rudrangi. Later, he went to Nizamabad to pursue ITI in 1985.
During his studies at ITI, he became a questioning voice for the students about the injustices
happening to them. He worked as the Secretary of the student union in ITI College, Nizamabad from
1985-86. After completing ITI, he was elected as Rudrangi village Congress general secretary during
1987-91. Being the general secretary, he got a special recognition for himself in the village.
Later, he worked as the district general secretary of the combined Karimnagar district Youth
Congress during 1991- 1995.
Political Entry
Aadi Srinivas, a dear disciple of Dr YS Rajasekhar Reddy, became stronger after Rajasekhar was
appointed as PCC president in the united State of Andhra Pradesh. At the age of 28, he won from
Chandurthi mandal as ZPTC in 1995. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the floor leader of the joint
Karimnagar Zilla Parishad. He worked as the vice-president of the joint Karimnagar district and as
the official spokesperson from 2001 to 2005.
In 2001, he won as MPTC and entered Mandal Parishad. From 2003 to 2006, he worked as Chandurthi
Mandal MPP. In 2004, Aadi Srinivas, was appointed as the chairman of the Vemulawada Rajarajeswara
Swamy temple. In 2005, YSR noticed Srinivas’ work in the public service, after his efforts paved the
way for the sanction of a lift irrigation scheme in Vemulawada, Sircilla. The then Sircilla MLA
Chennamaneni Rajeshwar Rao congratulated Srinivas in this regard.
In 2009, he was given the MLA
ticket for Vemulawada, but was defeated by a narrow margin of 1,821 votes. He has a 20-year
acquaintance with Telangana Congress Party PCC President Revanth Reddy. After the joint Karimnagar
district was divided into several districts, Aadi Srinivas was appointed as the district president
of Rajanna Sircilla.
Srinivas won from Vemulawada Assembly constituency in his third attempt. Representing Indian
National Congress in the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, he polled 71,451 votes and
defeated his nearest rival, Chalimeda Lakshmi Narasimha Rao of Bharat Rashtra Samithi by a margin of
14,581 votes.Contesting on Congress ticket, he lost the 2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly
election from Vemulawada seat to Ramesh Chennamaneni of Telangana Rashtra Samithi by a margin of
votes. Earlier in 2014, he contested on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket and lost to Ramesh by a
margin of 5,268 votes.
Revanth Reddy made him as a Government Whip.
Ever since he won as an MLA, he has been available to the people and has been solving their problems
promptly. As a part of that, constituency-wide tours are being conducted by him to find out the
problems of the people directly and the concerned officials are asked to solve the problems.