Kadiyam Srihari is the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and the former Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana in the K Chandrashekhar Rao's Cabinet from 2015 to 2018. He was also the Minister of Education from 2014 to 2018. He is currently an MLC in the Telangana Legislative Council. Srihari was the former Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader who won the Ghanpur seat in 1994 by defeating Congress candidate B Arogyam with a margin of 40,051 votes. He retained the seat in 1999 by defeating Congress candidate Dr T Rajaiah. However, he lost the election in 2004 when he was defeated by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate Gunde Vijaya Rama Rao with a margin of over 19,000 votes. He was again defeated in 2009. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Kadiyam Srihari won the Warangal constituency by defeating Congress candidate Rajaiah Siricilla with a huge margin of 3,92,574 votes. Srihari also served as Cabinet Minister under Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Srihari is again contesting from Ghanpur Station in the upcoming Telangana Assembly Election 2023 against Congress candidate Singhapuram Indira and BJP's Gunde Vijaya Rama Rao.