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Founded by matinee idol N T Rama Rao in 1982 with its professed aim of "safeguarding the
self respect of the Telugu people", it rose to power in 1983 in
Andhra Pradesh which it ruled till 1989. TDP was the main Opposition party in
the Eighth Lok Sabha. In 1989 the TDP joined the National Front led by V P
Singh. In December 1994 NTR returned as Chief Minister and was sworn in Chief
Minister. Subsequent dissent from son-in-law Chandrababu Naidu led to the tide
swinging in his favour and he was sworn in Chief Minister in September 1995. NTR
died in 1996 .
Chandrababu
become the chief minister with a will to fulfill the dreams of NTR.
Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, was born in Naravaripally village of Chittoor district on April
20, 1950. His late father Sri N.K. Naidu was an agriculturist and his
mother Smt. Ammanamma is a housewife.Chandrababu did his Masters in Economics
from the Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He was doing research for a
Ph.D. degree at the same university, when he took to politics.
Mr. Naidu has been evincing keen interest in rural development activities in
general and, the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden sections of society in
particular.Mr.Naidu was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in
1978 from Chandragiri constituency in Chittoor district. He served as a Director
of the A.P. Small Scale Industries Development Corporation for some time. He
subsequently became a Minister and held the portfolios of Archives,
Cinematography, Technical Education, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Public
libraries and Minor Irrigation between 1980 and 1983. He also served as the
Chairman of the State Karshak Parishad, constituted for the first time to look
after the welfare of the farming community.
Mr. Naidu was the General Secretary of Telugu Desam Party since 1985, in which
capacity he was instrumental in building up an effective party organization from
the grass roots. He was the moving force for designing and organizing large
scale multifaceted training programmes for party functionaries.
In 1994 he was reelected to the Assembly from Kuppam constituency with a large
majority of 57,000 votes and held the important
portfolios of Revenue and Finance. During this tenure Mr. Naidu systematically
introduced transparency in Government, thus breaking the tradition of inordinate
secrecy in the Finance department.
The Chief Minister has a firm conviction that modern technology should be used
in the service of the common man. Consequently, he has been laying great
emphasis on the use of modern information technology in Government. He would
like the State to be run professionally as an efficient organization rather than
as a bureaucracy riddled with red-tape.
The Chief Minister has initiated an exercise to define the Vision
2020 for the state. According to the Chief Minister, "Our
vision of Andhra Pradesh is a State where poverty is totally eradicated; where
every man, woman and child has access to not just the basic minimum needs, but
to all the opportunities for leading a happy and fulfilling life; a knowledge
and learning society built on the values of hard work, honesty, discipline and
a collective sense of purpose."
Recently, at the Chief Minister’s behest, the computerisation of the
registration department covering 212 sub-registrars offices was completed.
This computerisation will enable citizens to access services in a convenient
manner in a fraction of the time previously taken.
The Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu was given the "IT
man of the year" award by the Computer World for his vision and
contributions in harnessing IT for improving the lives of common citizens.
The Chief Minister is well
known for innovative concepts and programmes.
The “Dial
your Chief Minister” programme, telecast by the Doordarshan Kendra of
Hyderabad is one such interactive programme which is telecast every Monday.
The Chief Minister has been conducting
teleconferences with Collectors on various issues like the power situation,
clean and green programme, rythu bazaars, monitoring of prices, implementation
of road works, sanitation and public health, law and order .
JAI TELUGU NADU
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