D. Srinivas (politician)

Dharmapuri Srinivas (27 September 1948 – 29 June 2024) was an Indian politician from Telangana. He served as a president of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee and was a three time Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Early life
Srinivas was born in Velpur, Nizamabad. He graduated from Nizam College, Hyderabad, Telangana.

Political career
Srinivas joined Indian National Congress as a youth leader and worked for Youth Congress. He became an MLA for the first time winning the 1989 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He regained the Nizamabad seat in 1999 and won for the third time in 2004, in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh state. He served as Minister for Higher Education and Intermediate Education in Y. S. Rajashekhar Reddy's Ministry from 2004 to 2009. He also served with different portfolios in the cabinets of chief ministers Marri Chenna Reddy, Nedurumilli Janardhan Reddy and Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy.

He was the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president during the 2004 and 2009 assembly and general elections. He was a nephew of former finance minister Argul Rajaram of A.P. State. He lost the elections in 2009, 2010, and 2012 to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and in 2014 to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi Party (BRS).

He was elected as a Member of the State Legislative Council in 2011 and elected leader of the party in the Telangana Legislative Council. In the 2014 elections, he contested from Nizamabad rural assembly constituency but lost to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate Bajireddy Goverdhan. On 2 July 2015, he joined TRS and was made government adviser by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

On 2 July 2015, he resigned from the Congress Party and joined BRS. He was a Rajya Sabha Member from 2016 to 2022, and later rejoined the Congress Party.

Personal life and death
Srinivas was married and had two sons. His elder son Sanjay is a former mayor of Nizamabad. and his younger son Arvind Dharmapuri is a businessman and a member of Parliament of Nizamabad with BJP.

After suffering from illness for some time, Srinivas died from a heart attack in Hyderabad, on 29 June 2024, at the age of 75.