ALLA RAMA KRISHNA: THE FOUNDER
Alla Rama Krishna is a committed social activist and community leader who has dedicated his life to the cause of Other Backward Classes in India. Hailing from Telangana, he brings to the Forum a deep understanding of the social realities faced by backward class communities in the Telugu states and across India. His activism is rooted in both personal experience of social discrimination and a scholarly engagement with the history of the OBC movement.
Alla Rama Krishna's journey as an activist began at the grassroots level, engaging with communities in Telangana who were deprived of the benefits of reservation, education, and social welfare programmes. His exposure to the vast gap between policy on paper and implementation in practice drove him to conceive an organization that would function not merely as a protest platform but as an intellectual powerhouse for the OBC community.
As the founder of the National OBC Intellectual Forum, Alla Rama Krishna has been instrumental in bringing together diverse voices from the OBC community — uniting those from different sub-castes, different professional backgrounds, and different regions — under a single platform. He has consistently emphasized the importance of OBC unity, arguing that fragmentation along sub-caste lines has historically weakened the community's bargaining power.
His leadership philosophy centers on education, awareness, and empowerment. He believes that an educated OBC community that is aware of its rights, its history, and the mechanisms available to it will be far more effective in securing justice than one that relies solely on political patronage or agitation. Under his guidance, the Forum has organized numerous seminars, workshops, public lectures, and awareness campaigns designed to build this consciousness within OBC communities.
Alla Rama Krishna has also been a vocal advocate for OBC enumeration in the national census — a demand that has gained significant political traction in recent years, with the Government of India eventually announcing a caste-based census. He recognizes that accurate data on OBC populations is foundational to evidence-based policy-making and equitable resource allocation