Ryaga Krishnaiah(b.
13 January 1954), well known as R. Krishnaiah is a leader of Andhra
Pradesh Backward Castes 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.
Personal Details:
R.Krishnaiah was born in rich landlord and agriculture profession family possessing 140 acres (0.57 km2) of fertile land on January 13, 1954 in Rallagudipally village of RR district of Andhra Pradesh to Sri.Adivappa and Smt.Ramulamma. His lost his mother when he was 12 years old and his father when he was 17 years old.
He later married Smt.Shabari Devi and blessed with a
son Rushi Arun (M.B.B.S) and a daughter Rani
Swetha Devi(B.Tech).
He did his
Bachelors in Commerce(B.Com) and then finished his L.L.B, L.L.M in 1982, M.A in
1984 , and M.Phil from Osmania University at
Hyderabad in Andhra
Pradesh.
Leadership Profile:
R.Krishnaiah
initially got elected as a President of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and
Backward Castes Hostels
Student Union in 1972 to lead the students for their rights and demands in the
hostels.
He got elected as a
Students Leader when he was pursuing his graduation in 1973 and continued that
till 1989 with his hostel room as his office. During that tenure he led several
agitations for the social justice, system with equal rights and college student
demands with cent percent success. Till 1976 he was the leader of the college
students belonging to Osmania University.
In 1977 he was elected as the state level President fighting for the rights of
poor students belonging to Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, and
Scheduled Tribes and
continued this till 1987.
He is currently
acting as a President of Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes
welfare association, President of Andhra Pradesh Unemployed
Sangarshana Samithi and editor and founder of B.C Garjana magazine.
Accomplishments:
R.Krishnaiah fought
for welfare of Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes,
unemployed issues without the help of politicians and their political parties.
His honesty in leading the issues and taking them to the government with
successful results made him the de-facto leader in leading the economically
backward sections of the society. Today backward classes, scheduled castes and
tribes are enjoying the current fruits of scholarships in colleges, thousands of
separate hostels, residential colleges, implementation of reservation in
schools, colleges and jobs as a result of his leadership in fighting for the
rights of poor, oppressed and weaker sections of the society. These protests
under his leadership also enabled his dream of making the weaker and
economically backward sections of the society to take up expensive education who
cannot afford.
From 1976 because
of leading the agitations for a separate hostel for every high school,
government of andhra pradesh has started 300 to 500 new hostels for every year.
Currently there are more than 5000 hostels for backward classes, scheduled
tribes and castes utilized by more than 500,000 students with free food in the
hostels. He also successfully lead the agitations for providing scholarships for
poor students in junior colleges, degree colleges, and university colleges which
were not there before 1976. His fights also resulted in constructing more than
600 residential colleges all over the andhra pradesh for the welfare of weaker
and oppressed sections of the society.
In 1980 he
successfully fought and lead the agitations for the implementation of
reservations in private engineering colleges of andhra pradesh. To prevent him
from fighting, private engineering colleges management tried to lure him by
offering 15 lakhs of Indian rupees which he rejected upfront.
In 1996 he fought
for the reservation in mandal parishad, Zilla Parishat, municipal elections. He
made the then chief minister of Andhra
Pradesh N.T. Rama Rao to concede
for 20% reservation for backward classes.
From 1989 to 1993
he fought for reservations in village panchayat sarpanchs for
backward classes. As a result of this government conceded to provide 34%
reservations for backward classes sarpanchs.
In 1990 he
successfully lead the protestations and strikes in Andhra Pradesh for the
implementaion of Mandal Commission
recommendations. This in fact, brought him into limelight of national level
leaders. From then, he can submit anytime a memorandum or recommendation on
behalf of backward classes of Andhra Pradesh to the
state government politicians, officials, national level ministries including
offices of Prime Minister and President of
India.
In 1996 he led the
Sarpanchs of
Andhra Pradesh villages
for specific check power rights by taking dharnas(protestations through
processions) to Legislative
Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. As a
result of this, the then chief minister of Andhra
Pradesh nodded to their demands successfully.
He also fought and
lead the strikes in banning single number lotteries in Andhra Pradesh,
successful implementation of reservations for sarpanchs of andhra pradesh
villages, and fought legally to stop the construction of Almatti Dam
construction for the welfare of andhra pradesh people.
Because of his
fights from the last 35 years there were more than 2000 Government Orders(G.O)s
were introduced by the government. He mainly fought and took the issues to the
concerned departments/authorities related to various issues of backward classes
welfare , social justice, tribal community issues, medical, public health
issues, education, colleges/universities issues, revenue and panchayat raj related
issues.
Current Protestations:
Currently he is
fighting for 50% reservation for Backward Classes in
judiciary(including civil courts, district courts, sessions courts , and high
court of andhra pradesh).
He is leading the
agitations for the implementation of 50% reservation for politicians in Legislative
Assembly of Andhra Pradesh and member
of Parliament of India
through Andhra Pradesh. He is
starting an agitation similar to that of Gujjar protestations to be included in
Scheduled
Castes.
He is fighting for
the implementation of Nachiyappan commission recommendations with the central
government.
He is fighting for
avoiding Muslims, Kapu, Telaga, Balija and Ontari castes to be included in
current Other Backward
Castes list without increasing the current quota of reservations for Backward
Castes.
He is fighting for
BC act similar to Scheduled
Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 to prevent
atrocities against backward
castes.
He is also fighting
for increase of reservation quota from 27% to 50% due to addition of another 20
castes into existing 92 castes of backward
castes.
He never craved for the publicity of his achievements and
lately fought with success for making the Andhra
Pradesh state government in sponsoring the
tuition fees in private educational institutes for the poor students belonging
to the Backward Castes. To fight for the rights of poor backward classes he did
not accept the lucrative job offer when he stood topper in Bankers Examinations
after his graduation and politely declined the offer of member of Rajya Sabha by major political parties.
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