K. Chandrashekar Rao

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K. Chandrashekar Rao

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (popularly abbreviated " KCR ", Telugu కల్వకుంట్ల చంద్రశేఖర రావు , born February 17, 1954 in Chintamadaka , Medak district , then state of Hyderabad (now Telangana ), India) is an Indian politician of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi party . June 2014 Chief Minister of the newly formed State of Telangana.

biography

Rao was born in 1954 in a village in what was then the state of Hyderabad. His parents were Raghava and Venkatamma Rao. Rao studied at Osmania University in Hyderabad and earned a master's degree in Telugu literature. From 1970 he became politically active and initially worked in the youth organization of the Congress Party ( Youth Congress ). After NT Rama Rao founded the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) as the Telugu regional party for Andhra Pradesh in 1982 , KCR joined it in 1983. From 1985 to 2004 he sat as a member of the TDP in the regional parliament of Andhra Pradesh and was re-elected several times in the constituency 220-Siddipet .

On April 27, 2001, KCR resigned from his former post as deputy parliamentary speaker and declared his exit from the TDP. He founded a new party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), whose main agenda was the separation of the Telangana region from Andhra Pradesh and the establishment of a state of its own. The TRS allied itself with the Congress Party in the all-India parliamentary elections in 2004 and Rao was elected to the Lok Sabha in constituency 37-Karimnagar . From 2004 to 2006 he was also a minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first cabinet .

In November 2009, he began a public fast to promote the establishment of Telangana State. After long years of pro-Telangana agitation, a law to establish a new state of Telangana was finally passed by both houses of the Indian parliament in 2013 . The state officially became a political reality on June 2, 2014. Shortly before that, there were elections in Andhra Pradesh. In the Telangana region, the TRS won an absolute majority and KCR was elected as the first Chief Minister of the new state on June 2, 2015. Before that, on May 26, 2014, he resigned from his mandate in the Lok Sabha .

The parliamentary election in Telangana on December 7, 2018 was also won by the TRS with a large majority, Rao himself was elected in the Gajwel constituency and sworn in for a second term as Chief Minister on December 13, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c SRI K. CHANDRASHEKAR RAO - The Hon'ble Chief Minister. The Telangana State Portal, accessed October 20, 2015 (official website of the Chief Minister of Telangana).
  2. ↑ a b c Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on October 20, 2015 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  3. ^ N. Rahul: TRS leader K. Chandrashekhar Rao sworn in as Telangana CM for second straight term. The Hidu, December 13, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Telangana Result Status. Election Commission of India, accessed December 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rao, K. Chandrashekar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rao, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar (full name); Rao, KCR Chandrashekar; కల్వకుంట్ల చంద్రశేఖర రావు (teS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Chintamadaka , Medak District , Hyderabad State