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Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy
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| In office 2004-2009 |
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| Preceded by | N. Chandrababu Naidu |
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| Constituency | Pulivendula |
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| Born | 8 July 1949 Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse | Vijayalakshmi |
| Children | Jagan Mohana Reddy(Son),Sharmila(daughter) |
| Residence | Begumpet, Hyderabad |
| Religion | Church of South India |
| Website | http://www.ysr.in |
| As of 2 October 2006 Source: Government of Andhra Pradesh |
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Dr Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (born 8 July 1949), also known as YSR, is the current Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. He represents the Congress party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for four terms from Pulivendula constituency.
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He graduated in medical science from Gulbarga University and practiced medicine for sometime in his native Kadapa District. The hospital his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. The YS family also built and ran a degree college and a Polytechnic College at Pulivendula which was later handed over to the Loyola Group of Educational Institutions. Another junior college at Simhadripuram, a small town in the vicinity of Pulivendula, is being run by YS family.[1]
He was the Leader of the Opposition during the chief ministership of N. T. Rama Rao and N. Chandrababu Naidu until 2004. Prior to the 2004 election he undertook a padyatra(foot march) throughout the state promising several populist schemes. Prominent among these schemes was free power to farmers and a renewed focus on irrigation and villages if elected to power. In face of a 7 year drought and a renewed call for a separate Telangana by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the Indian National Congress managed to get a clear majority in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on its own while the Telugu Desam managed only 46 seats.
YS Rajasekhara Reddy was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after the later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections. [2] The Government initially consisted of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) which later withdrew its support owing to the lack of progress in the process of formation of a separate Telangana State.[3]
Having come to power by promising to be a pro-poor and pro-farmer government, he has taken up and implemented several programs for the benefit of the same. Prominent among these schemes include, the Jala Yagnam scheme - aimed at completing all the pending irrigation projects in the state and bring an additional 1 lakh acres of land into irrigation, the Arogya shri scheme - where people from the villages are provided high end emergency medical services, the free power supply to farmers and the 1 kg rice for 2 rupees scheme. The opposition parties how ever alleged that all his schemes are marred with high scale of corruption and favoritism.
He is accused of many scams worth lakhs of crores. As there is Congress at center and state, and he has great money and muscle power there is no way he can brought to book. He has created a hype of real estate in hyderabad driving the prices up by over 400 percent. Even though the real estate has crashed in rest of India like Delhi and Mumbai,he still manages the media to sustain the real estate as companies related to his family is having projects worth thousands of crores still in progress. He is also accused of favoring the contractors for thousands of crores in all the "Jala yagnam" projects.Recently CPI State leader Narayana commmented that" If YSR is elected for another term, it would have devastating effects on the state and especially telangana. He has destructed the economy of telangana like never done before and telangana would need another fifty years to recover".