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Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao
కల్వకుంట్ల చంద్రశేఖర రావు
1st Chief Minister of Telangana
Assumed office
2 June 2014
GovernorE.S.L. Narasimhan
Preceded byOffice Established
Minister of Labour and Employment
In office
22 May 2004 – 22 May 2006
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
1999–2001
Minister of Transport, Andhra Pradesh
In office
1996–1999
Minister of Drought & Relief, Andhra Pradesh
In office
1987–1988
Member of Parliament
In office
2009–2014
ConstituencyMahbubnagar, Telangana
In office
2004–2009
ConstituencyKarimnagar, Andhra Pradesh
(now in Telangana)
Member of the Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2014
ConstituencyGajwel, Telangana State
In office
1985–2004
ConstituencySiddipet, Andhra Pradesh
(now in Telangana)
Personal details
Born (1954-02-17) 17 February 1954 (age 70)
Siddipet, Hyderabad State, India
(now in Telangana, India)
Political partyTelangana Rashtra Samithi
SpouseK. Shobha
ChildrenK. T. Rama Rao
K. Kavitha
Residence(s)Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Alma materOsmania University

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 Feb 1954), better known and abbreviated as KCR,[1][2][3][4] is the first and the current Chief Minister of the Indian state of Telangana. He is the president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, a regional party in India.[5] He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (Telangana) from the Gajwel constituency of Medak District in Telangana. Previously, he served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (Andhra Pradesh) from Siddipet and also as the Member of Parliament from Mahabubnagar, Karimnagar and Medak. He took oath as the first Chief Minister of the new state of Telangana on 2 June 2014.[6][7][8]

Early life

Rao was born on 17 February 1954 in Chintamadaka village, Siddipeta Mandal, Medak District of Telangana State.[9] He attained a Masters degree in Literature from Osmania Arts College-Osmania University, Hyderabad.[10][11]

Political career

Congress Party

KCR started his career with the Congress party in Medak district.

Telugu Desam Party

KCR joined the TDP in 1983 and contested against A.Madan Mohan and lost that election. He won four consecutive Assembly elections from Siddipet between 1985 and 1999. From 1987–1988, he worked as Minister of Drought & Relief in N. T. Rama Rao's cabinet. In 1990, he was appointed as TDP convener for Medak, Nizamabad and Adilabad districts. In 1996, he worked as Transport minister in Chandrababu Naidu's cabinet. He also served as the deputy speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly from 2000–2001.[12]

Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Further information: Separate Telangana state movement

On 27 April 2001, KCR launched a new political outfit called Telangana Rashtra Samiti.[13]

In the elections of 2004, Rao won the Siddipet state assembly constituency and also the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, both as a TRS candidate.The TRS fought the 2004 general elections in alliance with the Indian National Congress and Rao was one of the five TRS candidates who were returned as MPs.[14]

TRS was part of the United Progressive Alliance coalition government, led by Congress. The party later withdrew from the coalition, saying that the Alliance was not minded to support a separate Telangana state.[15] In 2004, he fought the Lok Sabha polls and went on to become a Union Cabinet minister of Labour and Employment in the UPA-1 government at the Centre.[12]In 2014 In Telangana, the TRS, emerged victorious by winning 11 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats and 63 of the 119 Assembly seats, and emerged as the party with the largest vote share.[16] KCR was sworn in as the first chief minister of the Telangana state at 12.57 pm on 2 June. Rao, a staunch believer in astrology, numerology and Vaastu, is reported to have fixed this time for his inauguration as per the advice of priests to suit his lucky number ‘six’.[17][18][19]

Personal life

Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao is married to Shobha and has two children.[10] His son, K. T. Rama Rao, is a legislator from Sircilla, Karimnagar district, Telangana and is the cabinet minister for IT & Panchayat Raj , Municipal Administration & Urban Development Departments. His daughter, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, is an M.P. from Nizamabad, Telangana. His nephew, Harish Rao, is MLA for the Siddipet constituency and is now the cabinet minister for Irrigation, Legislative Affairs and Marketing in the Telangana. KCR often criticized for bringing all family members into party and making them ministers and MPs just because nothing but they are his family members.[20][21][22][23]

Criticism

KCR widely appraised for utilising public money in order to arrange the things according to his sound knowledge and foreseen.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] As Farmers continue to commit suicides even in the state KCR reportedly spent 150 crore public money on welfareof formers[34][35][36] KCR also criticized for cheating dalits by promising them to make a dalit leader first chief minister of telangana. But after coming to the power with dalit support, KCR himself became chief minister.[37][38][39] Some Dalit youngsters made an anti-KCR song centred around "KCR cheating Dalits" and "making government a family affair". The song became smashing hit on social media[40][41][42][43][44] KCR never uses vulgar and abusive language against other leaders and media, admired by opposition as his language being great than congress leaders.[45][46][47][48] In one instance He even said "opposition blame me for everything even if their wives are not having sex with them"[49] D. K. Aruna of congress campared KCR with pashupati (a rapist character).[50][51] In another instance KCR insulted his own party leader, then deputy CM T. Rajaiah publicly that too in front of media cameras. Dalit organizations criticized KCR and lodged complaint against KCR for insulting dalit leader (rajaiah)[52][53] Frustrated by this, KCR later dismissed rajaiah.[54][55][56][57][58] KCR praised Nizam as great ruler.[59][60][61][62] Leaders of Telangana Rebellion who fought against Nizam and his feudal lords condemned his statement and said KCR praising nizam to get muslim votes, insulted the leaders like Chakali Ailamma and Makhdoom Mohiuddin by praising Nizam.[63][64] Later KCR justified praise of Nizam saying though he committed some small mistakes he was a great king[65][66]

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Preceded by
Position Established
 Chief Minister of Telangana
2 June 2014 – current 		Succeeded by
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