Nara Chandra babu Naidu grate C.M

Nara Chandra babu Naidu (born April 20, 1951) was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh during 1995-2004. He holds the record of being the longest serving chief minister of A. P. He is currently the leader of the Telugu Desam Party, the second largest party in Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. N. Chandra babu Naidu was born in the Naravaripally village of Chittoor district on 20th April, 1950. He did his Masters in Economics from the Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He was working towards a Ph.D. degree at the same university, when he took politics. Naidu is married to Mrs. Bhuvaneswari and has a son Lokesh.

Early political career

After staging strong student leadership qualities, Naidu took a decision to pursue active politics. Naidu entered the political scene as a youth leader from Chandragiri and after that there was no looking back for him. During the Emergency, he was appointed as Pulicherla Youth Congress president. He became close to then prime minister Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi.
Legislative career 1978–1983
Naidu after winning his first election contest
Naidu got a Congress ticket in 1978 under the 20 per cent quota for youth from the Chandragiri Constituency. He was elected into the state assembly of Andhra Pradesh in 1978 as a member of the Congress Party, and he almost immediately became the minister of technical education and Cinematography in T Anjaiah's cabinet, making him the state's youngest assembly member and youngest minister at 28.
Being the Minister of State for Cinematography, he came into contact with the then superstar and Matinee Idol of Telugu Cinema, late Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR). The Nadamuri family was impressed with Chandrababu Naidu, and they soon proposed that NTR's daughter Bhuvaneswari be married to him. Naidu gave a positive response to the proposal, the wedding was conducted on a grand scale in Madras.

Telugu Desam Party

In early 1982 there were rumours that NTR was planning to plunge into politics by floating a regional political party. Just nine months before the scheduled general elections, NTR floated a regional party Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and was said to have invited Naidu to join the party, but Naidu stuck to the Congress party and contested again from Chandragiri constituency against a rival TDP candidate Venkatarama Naidu. The TDP swept the polls, and won a huge majority. It was the first time Indian National Congress was defeated in the state after Independence.
Naidu joined the TDP after he was defeated in the elections, predicting he would have a better future in his father-in-law's party.
Chandra Babu Naidu with NTR after winning 1994 elections.
Rise in the party
Naidu soon became NTR's trusted lieutenant and right hand man. When Nadendla Bhaskara Rao staged the infamous coup against NTR in August 1984, it was Chandrababu Naidu who helped his father-in-law's NTR regain power by rallying and parading all the MLA's before the President of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan. NTR appointed Naidu as the General Secretary of the party. He began playing a crucial role in the TDP after Nadendla Bhaskara Rao's coup.
NTR opted for a mid-term poll after regaining the chief ministership, but Naidu did not contest the poll. The Nandendla factor gave NTR another landslide. Naidu slowly started to become a second power center in the TDP and was believed to be building his own group in the party.
Legislative career 1989–1994
In the 1989 Assembly Elections, Chandrababu Naidu contested from his native constituency Kuppam and won with a slender majority of 5,000-odd votes. But as the Congress had regained power in the state elections, Naidu had to sit in the Opposition.
Palace Coup
In 1994, the TDP regained power following an anti-Congress wave triggered by an anti-liquor agitation and a strong anti-incumbency factor. Naidu became the Finance and Revenue minister in NTR's cabinet.
On 23 August 1995 Naidu engineered an internal party coup against NTR. His main aim to overthrow NTR was that NTR's second wife Lakshmi Parvathi was mishandling the party internal affairs to be the successor to NTR in the party and that the party was in danger of disintegrating. He convinced majority of the party about the dangers of Lakshmi Parvathi's buffoonery decisions keeping NTR in the dark. Naidu took over the post of Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 1 September 1995. He was also chosen as president of the Telugu Desam Party, sidelining NTR from TDP. NTR's sons, actors Nandamuri Harikrishna and Nandamuri Balakrishna and son-in-law Daggubati Venkateswara Rao played a crucial role in the coup.
As a Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
As chief minister, Chandrababu Naidu, had called for short-term sacrifices to turn Andhra Pradesh into an Asian tiger over the next 20 years. Naidu soon slashed subsidies for – among other things – food, and he raised power tariffs.
Both CNN and Time gave widespread coverage to Naidu's way of functioning, CNN said, In just five years, he has turned an impoverished, rural backwater place into India's new information technology hub. Time magazine has awarded Naidu as South Asian of the Year.
Naidu was the West's favourite Indian. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton both visited him in Hyderabad, the state capital. The governor of Illinois created a Naidu Day in his honour, and the British government and the World Bank flooded his state with money. They loved him because he did what he was told.
Vision 2020
Naidu came up with a vision document "Vision 2020" which was devised by US consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.
    It states that education and healthcare must be made available to everyone at a cost.
    Generate employment in the countryside
    Replace small investors with large corporations.

1999 election victory

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) led by Mr.Naidu won a majority in the state house winning 185/294 seats in the State Assembly and 29/42 in the Lok Sabha. Telugu Desam Party and its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) together bagged 37/42 seats in the Lok Sabha segment. Making it the second-largest ally in the new BJP led coalition government.
Hyderabad's development
Naidu quoted, "If you want to develop a state, you have to make its main cities a showpiece. Hyderabad is the capital of Andhra Pradesh. Naturally, when a foreign investor is coming, if I ask them to go to Warangal, Tirupati or Vijayawada they may not go. So for the key sectors like information technology, biotechnology, healthcare and various outsourcing services."
Naidu started the slogan " Bye-Bye Banglore, Hello Hyderabad". Microsoft Corporation has already set up a software development centre in Hyderabad, the second such centre outside its base in Seattle. Naidu managed to coax other global IT giants IBM, Dell, Deloitte, Computer Associates and Oracle to set up shop in Hyderabad, at a time when India hardly featured on global IT majors' radar. Naidu made impressive presentations before global CEOs and convinced them to invest in his state.
Naidu's crown jewel, Hi-Tech City in Hyderabad
2003 assassination attempt
On 1 October 2003, Naidu survived a land mine blast, He escaped with a fractured left collar bone and a hairline fracture to two of his right ribs. The incident occurred around 16:00 (IST) when Naidu was traveling in a convoy, heading to the Lord Venkateshwara temple in the Tirumala hills for the annual Brahmotsavam festival.
The State Information Technology Minister B. Gopalakrishna Reddy, Telugu Desam legislators R. Rajasekhar Reddy and Ch. Krishnamurthy, as well as the driver Srinivasa Raju, were also injured. After an extensive investigation Naidu's survival was attributed to the armoured vehicle in which he was traveling.
2004 elections failure
The Telugu Desam Party led by Chandrababu Naidu failed to come into the power after two successive wins, winning as low as 47/294 constituencies in the state assembly and 5/42 in the Lok Sabha segment. While many of his ministers lost, Naidu himself won by a huge margin in Kuppam.
Reasons behind 2004 election debacle
According to Naidu, the 2004 election failure is primarily attributed to the severe drought that gripped during his rule and an anti-incumbency factor.
Apart from this People thought, Naidu ignored the large rural population with his policies, failing to reach poorer voters. Years of drought and increasing debt have driven hundreds of farmers in the state to commit suicide, which created negative image for Mr Naidu.

Won

    Won in 2009 Assembly Election with 61.91% of votes gain for TELUGU DESAM party in KUPPAM constituency
    Won in 2004 Assembly Election with 69.94% of votes gain for TELUGU DESAM party in KUPPAM constituency
    Won in 1999 Assembly Election with 74.42% of votes gain for TELUGU DESAM party in KUPPAM constituency
    Won in 1994 Assembly Election with 75.49% of votes gain for TELUGU DESAM party in KUPPAM constituency
    Won in 1989 Assembly Election with 52.65% of votes gain for TELUGU DESAM party in KUPPAM constituency
    Won in 1978 Assembly Election with 44.23% of votes gain for INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS(I) party in CHANDRAGIRI constituency