Talari Rangaiah (born 3 June 1970) is an Indian politician who was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, from Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the YSR Congress Party.

He was earlier a project director in the District Rural Development Agency, or DRDA.^[1][2][3][4]

Rangaiah did double Post Graduation, pursuing a PhD in rural development. Throughout his career, he worked in various state government departments with different capacities and positions.

Talari Rangaiah had voluntarily announced his retirement from his post as Additional Director in the handloom department of DRDA in the Anantapur district.^{[citation needed]}

In Feb 2018, he joined YSR Congress Party by the party chief Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as part of his Praja Sankalpa Yatra at Timmapalem of Ponnaluru Mandal. He had worked in Group -1 service for two decades.^{[citation needed]}

In 2019, he was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha of Anantapur Constituency as a Member of Parliament (MP) with a margin of 6,95,208 votes and with a majority of 1,41,428 from the YSRCP party. In the same year, he was a Member of the Standing Committee on Rural Development, the Committee of Privileges, and the Consultative Committee and Minister of Textiles.^{[citation needed]}

Member of Parliament Talari Rangaiah has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Ministry of Railways to introduce a Kisan Rail for transporting export-oriented horticulture produce from the state and other places in the country. In the absence of transportation facilities due to nationwide lockdown restrictions, horticulture farmers have been facing hardships to transport fruits, he said.^{[citation needed]}

The MP in his letter mentioned that in the Anantapur district horticulture plantation is spread over 2.2 lakh hectares. About 52 lakh metric tonnes of papaya, pomegranate, mangoes, bananas and sweet lime are exported from the district.^{[citation needed]}

The farmers normally are sending their produce to Delhi and other cities by road transport. If the Kisan Rail is introduced, the farmers can export their horticulture produce which will save time and money. Mostly the horticulture produce comes for harvesting during the months of October to May.^{[citation needed]}

MP Rangaiah appealed to Prime Minister to sympathetically consider the request. Road transportation takes about 8 days to travel to Delhi while it takes 3 days via train route.^{[citation needed]}

• 23 May 2019 Elected to 17th Lok Sabha^{[citation needed]}
• 13 Sept 2019 onwards Member, Standing Committee on Rural Development^{[citation needed]}
• 09 Oct 2019 onwards Member, Committee of Privileges Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Textiles^{[citation needed]}

Rangaiah was born in a poor family of farmers, unprivileged society and backward class of Boya community.^{[citation needed]}

A 6+ years term in Ananthapur district and handled positions like PD. District Watershed Management. PD DRDA and PD. MEPMA and Municipal commissioner Ananthapur and Hindupur.^{[citation needed]}

• 1996- Group 1 Officer From Andhrapradesh cadre.^{[citation needed]}
• 1997- Recruited Directly Assistant Director H&T through APPSC.^{[citation needed]}
• 1998-1999 Worked as AD Handlooms & Textiles Chitoor Dt.^{[citation needed]}
• 1999-2002 worked as AD Handlooms & Textees Nellore Dt.^{[citation needed]}
• 2002-2006 Worked on VELUGU PROJECT in Markapur Division of Prakasham Dt.^{[citation needed]}
• 2006-2007 Worked as Additional PD, NREGS Anantapur.^{[citation needed]}
• 2007-2009 Worked as PD MEPMA Kadapa Dt.^{[citation needed]}
• 2009 - Worked as Additional commissioner Warangal Municipal Corporation, warangal^{[citation needed]}
• 2009- 2012 Worked as PD DRDA Anantapur.^{[citation needed]}
• 2012-2013 Worked as Municipal Commissioner. Hindupur(FAC)/Joint Director/Principal TCPSK Hindupur.^{[citation needed]}
• 2013-2014 Worked as Municipal Commissioner, Anantapur municipal corporation. Anantapur (FAC) / Joint Director/Principal TCPSK Hindupur.^{[citation needed]}
• 2014-2017 Working in the Head office in AP. Executive director. Society For Employment Generation & Enterprise Development in AP (SEEDAP), Department of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Govt. of AP)^{[citation needed]}
• 2017 December - Resigned For His Post as Additional Director in the handloom department of DRDA in Anantapur district and Announced Voluntary Retirement.^{[citation needed]}
• 2018 February - Joined the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party(YSRCP) by party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as part of his Praja Sankalpa Yatra at Timmapalem of Ponnaluru Mandal.^{[citation needed]}
• 2018-2019 - Simultaneously Worked as YSRCP Parliamentary Coordinator For Both Anantapur and Hindupur constituencies.^{[citation needed]}
• 2019 May 23 - Elected to the 17th Lok Sabha of Anantapur Constituency as a Member of Parliament(MP) with a majority of 1,41,428 votes from the YSRCP party.^{[citation needed]}
• 2019 September 13 - onwards Member of Standing Committee on Rural Development.^{[citation needed]}
• 2019 October 9 - onwards Member of Committee of Privileges. Member Of Consultative Committee. Ministry of Textiles.^{[citation needed]}

"The MGNREGS and Migration of Labour" North Asian International Research Journal Consortium (NAIRJC: A JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES)

• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website