Gellu Srinivas Yadav is from family of politicos

He had actively participated in resolving BC issues

After intense political manoeuvring, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday announced the name of TRSV state president Gellu Srinivas Yadav as TRS candidate for upcoming Huzurbad bypolls.

Gellu Srinivas is a resident of Himmat Nagar of Veenkavanka mandal of Huzurabad constituency of Karimnagar district. His father Gellu Mallaiah was a former MTPC and mother Lakshmi was a former sarpanch. He completed MA, LLB and is a research student in Political Science.

Several prominent leaders including Vakulabaranam Krishna Mohan, Peddi Reddy, L. Ramana and Swargam Ravi who recently joined the TRS along with those who were in the party right from the beginning were in the hope of getting the TRS ticket to contest the bypoll.

The hopes of some of the leaders who joined the TRS party from other parties were kept alive by removing Padi Koushik Reddy from the ticket race by allotting him the MLC post. But, finally Chandrashekar Rao, after a thorough study and considering all aspects, announced the name of Gellu Srinivas Yadav officially as he belonged to the Backward Class community and was an active participant of the separate Telangana movement. It is learnt that Chandrashekar Rao selected Srinivas as party candidate to keep a check on his opponent and BJP candidate Etala Rajendar as the latter is going to the public with the slogan of being a Telangana activist and belonging to the BC community.

Right from his student days, Srinivas actively participated in resolving BC issues. Joining the separate Telangana movement in 2003, he played a key role as a president of TRSV, the student wing of the TRS.

As a state president of the TRSV, Srinivas participated in several movements along with Bonthu Ram Mohan, Errolla Srinivas and Balka Suman. More than 100 cases were lodged against Srinivas when he participated in the separate Telangana movement as a student leader. He even went to jail nearly 36 times.