Nara Chandrababu Naidu

Early life and education

     Nara Chandrababu Naidu was born on April, 20 ,1950 to Nara Kharjura Naidu and Ammanamma in Naravaripalli Village, Chittoor dist., Andhra Pradesh. Chandrababu Naidu belonged to middle class agricultural family in Naravaripalli village.He has one elder sister and one younger brother.His parents were very hard working and toiled in their small agricultural land of 5 acres. Since childhood, he was a very observant and hardworking man. He did his primary education in the near by Chandragiri town and subsequently completed his Masters in Economics from Sri Venkateswara Arts college,Tirupati.Naidu is married to N.T.Rama Rao’s third daughter, Bhuvaneswari. The couple has a son, Lokesh, who is married to Brahmani.

Early political career

     Naidu was drawn to politics at an early age, and joined Youth Congress as a student leader in Chandragiri, near Tirupati.  Naidu received an Indian National Congress  nomination in 1978 under the 20 percent quota for youth to run for the office of the member of the legislative assembly in Chandragiri constituency. He was appointed as technical education and cinematography minister in T.Anjaiah s government at the age of 28. He was the youngest minister in the Congress cabinet

Telugu Desam Party

     In 1982, NTR formed the Telugu Desam Party  and swept the assembly polls held in 1983. Mr Naidu, who was then still in the INC, joined the TDP soon after. In the 1989 assembly election, Chandrababu Naidu contested from Kuppam and won by 5,000 votes.

Legislative career

     In 1995 to 2004, as a Chief Minister, he introduced many market based reforms while at the same time formulating many populist schemes which none of his predecessors ever launched. IT and ITES sectors boomed during his tenure, giving rise to a separate state level IT policy.Heaps of files in government offices were cleared regularly and he brought about revolutionary changes in the solving peoples problems. He always believed in walking the talk and modernized administration by computerizing a number of government operations.

     He made the administration run professionally as an efficient organization and came out with a Vision 2020 policy document for the all round development of the state and implemented it with passion, be it in IT, bio technology or tourism.

     Nara Chandrababu Naidu vision includes making Andhra Pradesh another Singapore. He launched initiatives which aim at achieving excellence in all walks of life and focus on community building through teamwork.

     In 2014 Elections, the Telugu Desam Party returned to power, in the state of Andhra Pradesh winning 102 seats out of 175 seats. Chandrababu Naidu led TDP to an outright majority in the state of Andhra Pradesh and took oath as the first Chief Minister of the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh on June 8th 2014  at mangalgiri in the grounds of Acharya Nagarjuna University near Guntur.

As Chief Minister (1995 to 2004)

     As chief minister, Naidu advocated short term sacrifice to turn Andhra Pradesh into an Asian tiger over the next 20 years. He slashed food subsidies , and raised power tariffs. Both Bill Clinton  and Tony Blair  visited Hyderabad and met with Naidu whilst he was chief minister.

     Aparisim Ghosh of the American news magazine, Time commented, In just five years, he has turned an impoverished, rural backwater place into India's new information-technology hub", and the magazine named him South Asian of the Year.

2014 to Present

     With the formation Telangana state he became the first chief minister of remaining fraction Andhra Pradesh which holds around 58 percent  of the original state of Andhra Pradesh with a temporary combined capital as Hyderabad. This temporary capital arrangement is for upto 10 years.From 10 to 12 January 2016, The Confederation of Indian Industry organised the 22nd edition of CII Partnership Summit in partnership with the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Ministry of Commerce and Industry at APIIC Ground, Harbour Park, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Chandrababu Naidu was successful in signing a total of 331 memoranda of investment proposals worth Rs 4.78 lakh crore into Andhra Pradesh. It is expected that these understandings produce more than 10 lakh jobs in coming 5 years in the state.