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Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
ConstituencyPulivendula
Personal details
Born (1949-07-08) 8 July 1949 (age 75)
Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseVijayalakshmi
ChildrenSon and a daughter
Residence(s)Begumpet, Hyderabad
Websitehttp://www.ysr.in
As of 2 October, 2006Source: Government of Andhra Pradesh

Dr. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (born 8 July 1949), popularly known as Y.S.R., is currently serving as Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He represents the Indian National Congress party and was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Pulivendula Assembly Constituency of Kadapa District.

Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in May 2004. Many critics and followers acclaim his Pada Yatra played a crucial role in bringing Indian National Congress back to power in Andhra Pradesh after nine years.

Family background

Reddy, the second of five brothers, was born in Pulivendula, a small town in the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. The Reddy family have traditionally been large land-owners in southern Andhra Pradesh but made its fortunes in the 1970s and 1980s mining barite, an industrial mineral used in the oil industry. YSR was married to Smt. Vijayalakshmi in 1971 and has a son, Jagan Mohan Reddy and a daughter, Sharmila. Y S Vivekananda Reddy is brother of YSR and an elected Lok Sabha member for Congress representing Cuddapah district.

Achievements

Reddy has stepped on to his electoral promise of 'Free power to farmers', which has the benefit of providing help to farmers but comes at huge cost to the Andhra Pradesh budget and puts already scarce water resources even further under stress.

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With Arnold in his vist to the Americas

Y.S RajaSekhar Reddy Government Achievements

- Y.S.R waived arrears of power bills related to agricultural consumption to the tune of Rs.1,192 crores with the First Signature as chief minister on May 14th .

- Free power to the farmers from the first day (May 14th 2004) of YSR in power.

- Started “Jala Yagnam” to build 26 Major irrigation projects and 6 medium irrigation projects with the expenditure of 56,000 Crores investment.

- FAB (Electronics, Semi Conductor) City to Andhra Pradesh.

- Distribution of Lands to poor farmers with the “Indira Prabha” programme.

- Science City Proposal in Ananatapur with 1,00,000 Crores investment.

- Inter national Air port to Hyderabad.

- The Congress government launched a new scheme by name Rajiv Yuva Shakthi to provide wage employment and self employment by spending 1000 crores.

- Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) to Andhra Pradesh.

- For low-income urban population, government has launched an innovative housing scheme “Rajiv Gruhakalpa”.

- For middle-income urban population, government has launched an innovative housing scheme “Rajiv Swagruha”.

- American Consulate to Andhra Pradesh.

- 25 Paise interest to Dwacra Group Women.

- Vizag Steel Plant Expansion.

- Adidas shoe company to Nellore district.

- Successfully getting highest amount of money from Central Finance commission since three years, for the 2007 year 30,000 crores and 2006 year 20,000 crores.

- Completed Jhanjavathi Project for Vijyanagram district.

- Successfully launched “Rajiv Internet Village” to promote technology to villages.

- Out of 117 election promises made in 2004, works pertaining to 74 were completed, 19 were under various stages of progress and 24 were pending.

Education

Reddy is a medical science graduate from the M.R. College of Gulbarga, Karnataka, where he served as the president of the student union. He completed house surgeon from Sri Venkateshwara Medical College, Tirupathi, during which he was elected as leader of House Surgeon's Association in S V Medical College. Upon completion of his MBBS degree, he served as Medical Officer in Church of South India's Campbell Hospital in Jammalamadugu in the Diocese of Nandyal for a brief period. In 1973, Reddy established a 100-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. His family established one Polytechnic and one degree college in Pulivendula which were later handed over to the well-known Loyola institutions.....

Political career

Reddy has an eventful 25-year political career to date. He started his career as samithi president and later served as a youth congress leader. In the ensuing elections in 1978, he won on the Indian National Congress ticket at the age of 28. He served as minister in Tanguturi Anjaiah cabinet for a brief period. Sensing a potential leader, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi entrusted him with Pradesh Congress Committee president when he was 34 years old. Dr. Reddy represented Kadapa contstituency as Member of Parliament of India for four times and similar number of times as Member of legislative assembly of Andhra Pradesh from Pulivendula constituency. Reddy has never lost an election.

As Chief Minister

Reddy, after taking oath as chief minister, apportioned a lion's share of state's funds to agriculture. His decision of free power to farmers has become controversial. His policies always revolved around supporting agriculture by giving sops to small and marginalized farmers, along with building new infrastructure. The first two years of his tenure have seen a large sum of Rs.16000 Crore being spent for building irrigation projects. Dr. Reddy has given Andhra Pradesh a new face-lift with a pro-poor and pro-farmer as well as investor-friendly and mainly rural oriented policies.



Jala Yagnam

'Jalayagnam' has been implemented by Reddy as an election promise to the farmers of Andhra Pradesh to double the area under irrigation in five years. This project accords the highest priority for the development of irrigation infrastructure. It comprises a number of irrigation projects, construction of new reservoirs and lift irrigation systems, and to divert water from major rivers through canals. Also it includes the linking up of two major rivers: the Godavari and the Krishna.

It comprises 32 major and 17 medium irrigation projects, which are estimated to cost ex-chequer Rs. 65,000 crores to provide irrigation to an extent of 7,100,000 acres (28,000 km²) besides stabilization of an existing ayacut of 3,600,000 acres (15,000 km²), while providing drinking water to a population of 1.2 crore and generating power to the tune of 2700 MW to meet industrial needs. There are a number of controversies related to the Jala Yagnam program including the rehabilitation of people displaced (more than 1.5 lakh people are expected to be displaced by the Polavaram dam on the river Godavari alone), how to finance a program of dams which runs into 10,000s of crore rupees and the disruption of environmentally important locations.

Harithandhra Pradesh

Reddy, in the capacity of Chief Minister, has waived arrears of power bills related agricultural consumption to the tune of Rs.1192 crore. Free power to farmers was introduced as another election promise, which is often criticized as impractical by many elites. However, the programme is still in implementation despite being a heavy budren to state's economy.

The state government has announced a Special Package of Relief & Rehabilitation for the distressed farmers, providing succour and financial relief for them. Aimed at economic empowerment of farmers, the State government has set up “ Agricultural Technology Mission” (ATM) with effect from 15 January 2006.

Indiramma programme

Indiramma programme - an acronym for Integrated Development In Rural Areas and Model Municipal Areas, seeking to achieve integrated development of the State was launched by Reddy on 30 March 2006. Under the programme, the Government would lay roads, construct houses and classrooms, and take up other development programmes. This programme is estimated to benefit rural economy by improving the existing infrastructure and it is targeted to build 7 million houses for the rural poor by the year 2009. However, there are several allegations of rampant corruption in this programme

Religious background

According to Jayamma, the mother of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, it was his grandfather who was converted by Father Rolls, a British missionary. The family was ostracised by the local community and decided to move out of the village . In 1947 the Church of South India was formed and his father began to attend the Church Services of this congregation.

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy asked the Seventh-day Adventists to build a church on his estate for his workers who converted to Christianity.

Controversies

There have been suspicions voiced by Hindu groups over Reddy's evil intentions. They claimed that he has used his position to bring Christian institutions into the decision-making loop of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams,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. Mr.Reddy later on gave complete autonomy to Devasthanams over the seven hills and declared his good intent of not messing up with religious sentiments of the people in the state.

Reddy, in December 2006 handed over 618 acres (2.5 km) of land owned by his father to the Government of Andhra Pradesh, when he came to know that part of the land was assigned land given by the Government to the weaker sections of scheduled caste. He did this upon his own interest without the same being raised by any newspaper or opposition parties, however the opposition parties politicized this issue, and he didn't get credit for his noble action. Also, On 3 January 2007 he surrendered 997 acres (4.0 km) of land in Kadapa district belonging to him and his family members, for distribution to the poor..

Preceded byN. Chandra Babu Naidu Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
May 2004 – 		Succeeded byCurrent Incumbent

References

  1. The Hindu. "YSR surrenders yet 997 acres (4.0 km) more"

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