Malyala Rajaiah

Malyala Rajaiah was born on 25 February 1944 in Vedira village of Karimnagar, Telangana. He did Bachelor of Arts in Hyderabad from a college and Bachelor of Laws at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He started practising as an Advocate in Secunderabad city civil court.^[5]

Prior to his political engagement, he was serving as a Judge in state of Andhra Pradesh from 1979 to 1985. He practiced as an Advocate from 1975 to 1979.Before that, he had also worked in South central Railways for 8 years. In 1985, he contested assembly election and assumed office as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was appointed as a Chairman of Estimates legislative committee which he has served for 4 years, until 1989, and as a Finance and Power minister from February to November in N.T.Rama Rao’s Cabinet. In 1994, he was re-elected for the assembly and was appointed as a chairman of SC legislative committee. He was appointed as a Member of TTD( Thirupati Thirumala Devasthanam) board in 1994. In 1996, when he was serving as MLA, he was credited with state Housing ministry until 1998. It was 1998 when he contested 12th General elections of India from Siddipet constituency and served as a member of parliament until 1999. He was then re-elected in 13th Lok Sabha elections with highest majority in the State and remained in office till 2004. During this period, he was the member of parliamentary committee on Defence, Industries and parliamentary committee on SC’s and ST’s.^[8]

Malyala Rajaiah was born to Malyala Mallaiah and Durgamma on 25 February 1944. He was married at a very young age to "M. Anasuya Devi" on 23 May 1964. He had two sons, Srinivas and Ravinder, and two daughters Sharada and Saroja.^[9]