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K. Chandrashekar Rao
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Born	17 February 1954 (age 70); Small village in Chintamadka, Medak, Andhra Pradesh
Residence	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

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Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (Telugu: కల్వకుంట్ల చంద్రశేఖర రావు) (born 17 February 1954) abbreviated KCR, is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India.He is a Member of Parliament from the Mahaboobnagar constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is the president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He was the cabinet minister for Labour and Employment.

Early life

Rao was born in Chintamadaka village near Siddipet in Medak district. He did his Masters in Telugu Literature. In his youth he worked for telangana. He is one of the best speakers in the contemporary indian politics,he can speak telugu,hindi,urdu and english fluently.

KCR and Fast Unto Death

In 2009 December, 11 days of KCR’s fast triggered students agitation and forced Central Government to consult all major parties who consented to the formation of Telangana state and Chidambaram announced initiation of the process of formation of Telangana. The rest is contemporary (current) history.

KCR’s thinking, methodology and strategy behind these events are:

With initial successes of TRS, it can persuade and tempt the leaders of other parties that promising Telangana is likely to provide them with access to a valuable vote bank, which will significantly increase these parties’ chances of electoral victory. KCR successfully implemented it.
His plan was to get sufficient seats to hold the balance of power at the state and/or center level that would allow the party to bargain with the potentially ruling coalitions for a commitment to Telangana statehood. He could succeed in this significantly.

He can become chief minister of the new state and increase his wealth.

KCR thought that success of TRS empowered supporters of Telangana statehood within other parties will force their leaders to support separation, which we have witnessed.

KCR calculated that Success of TRS threatens to lure away separatist supporters and leaders from other parties, forcing those parties to support separation to avoid their departure. As we know this did happen.

KCR knew that ,by fasting he can unify virtually all people in Telangana and it will trigger agitation and raised the intensity of demand for separation to such a level that peace and tranquility is threatened, forcing the government to concede separation.

Score card of KCR

He has made Congress, BJP and TDP commit to Telangana state formation on record.
He built a political platform at Delhi with Agnivesh, Ajith singh, Burdan and many more leaders.
He used all his prestige, political power and energy on a single point program of separate Telangana.
He sustained the campaign for 10 long years. No one in Indian history has done that except Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.
He has initiated the resurgence of Telangana culture and restored dignity to its language.
He is an excellent public speaker and has the strategic skills to, modulate, intensify, and rouse people power of Telangana.
He is audacious, and can up-the-ante strategically, can use brinkmanship as a weapon and has strategic fore sight and depth.
He never lets any one figure out what he is (simply put, once you become predictable you become vulnerable).
He has shown unwavering belief in adverse circumstances. He understands what he is doing and is single minded and single pointed.
He is the best speaker in andhra pradesh politics, he has great influential power with his strong and powerful speech.He is equally strong in telugu, english,hindi,urdu.
Finally, he is one of the top leaders with great chesrishma in telangana

Criticism Against KCR

The criticism of YSR in the Assembly is that had Chandrababu Naidu given him the minister ship he would not have started Telangana agitation. He was obviously humiliated. It is a life changing experience. Everyone has life changing experience which will give them new meaning to life. But YSR’s utterances are like an observation ‘Had Gandhi been allowed to travel in the white mans compartment he would not have started freedom movement’. It is like telling, had Baroda Maharaja staff not given him a separate water pot, Ambedkar would not have fought for Daliths. The intention is not to put KCR in Gandhi and Ambedkar’s league, but to highlight how the mental processes take shape.

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 Rao was born in Chintamadaka village near Siddipet in Medak district. He did his Masters in Telugu Literature. In his youth he worked for telangana. He is one of the best speakers in the contemporary indian politics,he can speak telugu,hindi,urdu and english fluently.
-==Telangana Movement and Role of KCR and TRS==
-*Telangana had seen two significant uprisings. The first was in 1945-51 lead by Communist Party of India to rid the area of landlords who initially were supported by the Nizam and then by the Government of India. The second was in 1969-71. There was a major effort in Telangana agitation of 1969 for the formation of Telangana. Many sacrificed their lives in these struggles.
-* The third uprising is under KCR/TRS. It is true to the times and different in manner and process. It is totally non- violent; not a single shot was fired; not a single Andhra was assaulted. It is constitutional and through the legitimate political process. Let us see what happened in the last decade or so.
-*In 1997 NDA declared in its resolution that is for separation of Telangana. In 1998 it went to the election with a slogan that ‘one vote and take 2 states’. In 1999 BJP retracted on this promise for the sake of alliance with TDP.
-*In 2001 within 6 weeks of formation TRS entered Telangana electoral fray as a major player, making sure that the election can only be a triangular fight.
-*In 2002 TRS has demonstrated its strength through bandh on Dec 27th and other activities. UPA was looking for alliances to match Powerful NDA. It also wanted to keep it flock together from defecting to TRS.
-*In 2004 TRS made Congress declare that there are many valid reasons for formation of Vidarbha and Telangana. However, Congress put a bind that the issue is better addressed by 2nd SRC.
-*In 2004 TRS won 5 MP seats and 26 MLA seats, 6.8% of the overall vote in AP and 16% of the vote in Telangana Parliamentary constituencies vote share. TRS joined central cabinet and Telangana formation was included in the common minimum programme of UPA. KCR tried to get the goodwill of UPA for the formation of Telangana by dropping out the cabinet- to- be; just being a cabinet minister without portfolio.
-*KCR saw to it that in The President’s address on June 7, 2004, included a statement: The government will consider the demand for the formation of a Telangana state at an appropriate time after due consultations.
-In 2006 KCR resigned from Karimnagar seat, challenging Congress that it is a referendum on Telangana. He was reelected with massive majority.
-*In 2008 TRS MLAs and MPs resigned as Congress was not introducing the bill into the parliament for formation of Telangana state, although BJP was ready to support it. In the by-elections in 2008 it won 7 MLA seats and 2 parliament seats and this was a set back.
-*In 2009 TRS joined a grand alliance and won 2 parliament seats and 10 assembly seats with 6.14% of total votes (MP seat vote share in AP). If adjusted to percentage of Telangana vote as it is an exclusive Telangana party, it polled 15.35% of votes out of total polled votes in Telangana in Parliamentary constituencies, which is not different from the voting percentage of 2004 (16%) although the seats are less. Votes do not always translate into seats as we do not have proportional representation system in India; contrary to the layman’s thinking. It is the propaganda of Congress, TDP, Andhra elite and the press that TRS lost out in 2009.
 ==KCR and Fast Unto Death==