Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy

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Dr. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (born 1949), popularly known as Y.S.R., is the present Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He is known for his forthright speech and frank approach. Dr. Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy hails from Pulivendula, a small town from Cuddapah district of the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. He is Roman Catholic, his grandfather having been converted by British missionaries.

Reddy belongs to the Indian National Congress party and was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Pulivendula Assembly Constituency of Cuddapah District. He has been Chief Minister since May 14 2004. He served as the leader of the Opposition in the House for the previous term during which N. Chandrababu Naidu was the Chief Minister.

Y.S.R. is a medical science graduate from the M.R. College of Gulbarga. He did his House-Surgency in SV Medical College, Tirupathi. Upon completion of his MBBS degree, he served as Medical Officer at CSI Campbell Hospital, Jammalamadugu, for a brief period of time. In 1973 he established a 70-bed charitable hospital at Pulivendula in the name of his father, Sri Y. S. Raja Reddy. The hospital continues to serve the poor to date.

A doctor by profession, Reddy made his debut in politics as a Youth Congress Leader. It is interesting to note that he and his present opponent, TDP President Nara Chandrababu Naidu, made their debut at the same time (1978) in the Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly as young legislators of the Congress party. They both worked together as Ministers in Sri. Tanguturi Anjaiah’s cabinet.

Y.S.R. had an active political career over a quarter of a century and has been representing his party on different fora. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Cuddapah constituency four times, and a similar number of times to the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly, from the Pulivendula constituency. He twice served as the APCC President. He remains one of the very few national politicians who have never lost an election.

Controversy

There have been suspicions voiced by Hindu groups over the alleged biases held by YSR. They say that Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy has used his position to bring Christian institutions into the decision making loop of the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam, which governs Hinduism's most visited shrine and that he may even be facilitating a church to be built on the holy hills of Tirumula. Suspicions were aroused due to a sudden proliferation of churches along the roads leading to the holy shrine and a recent auction of Hindu temple land in Tirumula being hastily called off when it became known that Christian groups were attempting to make a bid.

Reddy belongs to a Protestant evangelical organization.^{[citation needed]} As he belongs to Indian National Congress (INC) whose chief is Roman Catholic Sonia Gandhi, right wing Hindu organisations believe that he is trying to destory the Hindu religion and Hindu holy places in Andhra Pradesh.^{[citation needed]}

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