Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Congress Leader Dr.Y.S.Rajashekar Reddy

Dr. Y.S.Rajashekar Reddy Garu

Dr 'Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (born 8 July 1949), is the present chief Minister of State of Andhra Pradesh, India. He represents the Congress party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for four terms from Pulivendula constituency. He became very popular in the state after his 3 month long walking tour across several districts in Andhra Pradesh.

He graduated in medical science from Gulbarga University and practiced medicine for sometime in his native Kadapa District. The hospital his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. The YS family also built and ran a degree college and a Polytechnic College at Pulivendula which was later handed over to the Loyola Group of Educational Institutions. Another junior college at Simhadripuram, a small town in the vicinity of Pulivendula, is being run by YS family.

He has initiated numerous programs primarily for the benefit of the common people and farmers of the state who constitute more than 60% of the population. The programs for the benefit of farmers include free power supply for farmers, Jalayagnam - a large scale program to construct more than 70 pending irrigation projects in the state to improve irrigation facilities to the farmers, increase in minimum support price for rice. Prominent among other programs include Arogya Shree - a health insurance scheme for rural masses where government pays the entire price of any surgery and does not require people to pay any premium, Pavala Vaddi - a program that provides loans to people at just 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural woman, Indiramma illu - a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by charging a small amount and the government the remaining amount.

Dr. Yeduguri Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, is acclaimed, both by the National and the International figures that ever visited the State, as the best blend of an able administrator and the most loved leader of the masses. Dr. Yeduguri Sandinti Raja Sekhar Reddy, popularly known as YS, is an astute politician and a charismatic mass leader who has carved for himself a niche in State politics by his exemplary devotion and dedication to the uplift of the downtrodden and neglected segments of society. YSR has always struggled to secure the rights of the poor and the underprivileged.

An unbiased Leader..

Dr. YSR is into active politics since a quarter of a century and has been representing his party on different fora. During 1980-1983, he was a minister holding important portfolios related to Rural Development, Medical & Health and Education etc. .He was elected to Loksabha from Kadapa constituency for four times and got elected to A.P. Assembly for four times from Pulivendula constituency. Dr.YSR, the legislator, fought many a battle on the floor of Assembly and outsmarted his rivals on every account. His Five year stint as the leader of the opposition in the State’s Assembly has brought out the best of his oratorical art and arguementative skills. He remains one of those very few politicians around who never lost an election. Dr. YSR’s role as an MLA in getting Tungabhadra water for Pulivendula Branch Canal (PBC) and fighting for projects like RTPP (Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant) at Muddanur, and Proddatur Milk Foods and its ancilaries, Milk chilling plants at various locations in always remembered.

As PCC President..

He was President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice - 1983-1985 and 1998-2000. As the president of PCC, Dr. YSR rendered yeomen services to the party in regaining the faith and trust of the masses. This in turn made him the most acceptable leader of the people from every corner of the State. From 1999 to 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the eleventh state assembly.

Paadayaatra:

During mid-summer in 2003, he led an unprecedented 1400 Km long Paadayaatra covering all backward areas in the state to understand the ground realities of living conditions of the people there. Even as a novice in the legislature, YSR rallied all the Congress MLAs from the Rayalaseema region and led an indefinite hunger strike demanding solution to the water crisis. He also led a Paadayaatra from Lepakshi to Pothireddipadu in Kurnool district.

As Chief Minister...

Sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 14.05.2004.As the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy efficiently serving the interests of the people at large Hailing from a drought hit region - the Rayala Seema - he knows the real value of every drop of water. This is the very reason for his taking up the cause of farmers as a young legislator.A curious 'pastime' of Dr Reddy is to feel the pulse of people in rural areas on Sundays through the Rajiv Palle Batta.

Telugu Desam Party Leader Nara Chandra Babu Naidu

Nara Chandra Babu Naidu Garu

Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, was born in the Naravaripally village of Chittoor district on 20th April, 1950. His late father Sri N.K. Naidu was an agriculturist and his mother Smt.Ammanamma is a housewife. Mr. Naidu had his school education in Chandragiri and his college education at the Sri Venkateswara Arts College, Tirupati. 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 to politics.

Mr. Naidu held various positions of office in his college and organised a number of social activities. Following the 1977 cyclone, which devastated Diviseema taluk of Krishna district, he actively organised donations and relief material from Chittoor district for the cyclone victims. Mr. Naidu has been evincing a keen interest in rural development activities in general and, the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden sections of society in particular.

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 mantle of leadership fell on the shoulders of Mr. Naidu at a most critical juncture in the State's politics. Following a popular upsurge in the party, Mr. Naidu was unanimously elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 1 September 1995.

Following the elections to the State assembly wherein the Telugu Desam Party led by Mr. Naidu emerged as a winner, he was sworn in on 11 October 1999 as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the second term. He was elected with a majority of more than 65,000 votes.

The Chief Minister has a modern outlook to administration. His style of functioning is more akin to that of a CEO rather than a traditional politician. The Chief Minister has a firm conviction that modern technology should be used in the service of the common man. Consequently, he lays great emphasis on the use of modern information technology in Government. He would like the State to be run professionally as an efficient organisation rather than as a bureaucracy saddled with red-tape.

The Chief Minister's vision for the future includes multidimensional development of all citizens of the State. He is keen to develop the full potential of all citizens based on a strong moral foundation. The Chief Minister has been propagating a return to ethical and value based precepts in day-to-day life. In keeping with this commitment, he has launched new initiatives, like the Janmabhoomi programme which aims at achieving excellence in all walks of life and focuses on community-building through team work.

In order to achieve greater involvement of the people in the implementation of Government programmes, the Chief Minister has been encouraging the concept of social audit, which involves making information available to all citizens about the works being taken up with public funds in their area. The Chief Minister has also taken the initiative for setting up self-help groups like water users' associations, for involving farmers in the management of irrigation systems. Other self-help groups like Watershed Development Committees, Womens' groups, Youth groups, Village Education Committees and Village Health Committees have also been set up. These self-help groups have significantly contributed to removing intermediaries and have been widely acknowledged for improving the condition of the poor.

The Chief Minister has initiated an exercise to define 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 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." This vision reflects the Chief Minister's forward looking perspective on the state's development, and the details of the vision are proposed to be fine-tuned in consultation with the people on a continuing basis.

The Chief Minister is undertaking administrative reforms in right earnest and would like to emphasise as much on processes of 'transformating' as on 'informating' within Government. As part of the Administrative Reforms, the Chief Minister would like to use Information Technology for providing better quality of governance for the common man.

Mr. Chandrababu Naidu has drawn attention and has concentrated on evolving a new way looking at Centre-State finance relations. He has spearheaded the campaign for fiscal federalism in the wake of the recommendations of the Eleventh Finance Commission. He has emphasised on equity and efficiency in the devolution of Central revenues and sharing of resources between the Centre and the States.

The Chief Minister has won numerous awards including " IT Indian of the Milleneum' (India Today) Business Person of the Year ( Economic Times ) member of the World Economic Forum's Dream Cabinet and South Asian of the Year ( Time Asia ).

The Chief Minister was chosen as one of 50 leaders at the forefront of change in the year 2000 by the Business Week magazine for being an unflinching proponent of technology and for his drive to transform the State.

The Chief Minister is married to Mrs. Bhuvaneswari and has a son Lokesh. His father-in-law, the late Mr. N.T. Rama Rao, was one of the most accomplished film actors of Telugu cinema, who later founded the Telugu Desam Party and was also the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

President of U.S.A Barack Hussein Obama

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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned following his election to the presidency.

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Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree, and practiced law as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

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Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate in 2004. A landslide victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary raised his visibility, with his nationally televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 making him a rising star in the Democratic Party. He was elected by a landslide margin to the U.S. Senate in November 2004.

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Obama began his run for the Presidency in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination, becoming the first major party African American candidate for President. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican candidate John McCain and was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009.

Konidela Chiranjeevi Garu(Mega Star)

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Chiranjeevi (born Konidela Shiva Shankara Vara Prasad on August 22, 1955), is a popular Tollywood actor. He has received the Padma Bhushan award, the second highest padma award bestowed by the Government of India. He is the only Tollywood actor to receive seven Filmfare Best actor awards. He has a huge fan following in Andhra Pradesh. He announced his formal entry into politics on August 26, 2008 and founded the political party named Praja Rajyam.

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Early life

Vara Prasad is the son of Late Sri Venkat Rao and Srimathi Anjana Devi. He was born on 22 August 1955 in Mogallturu,a town on the Banks of River Godavari in the West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh in India. His father worked as a constable and got transferred on a regular basis. He spent his childhood in his native village with his grand parents. He has two sisters and two brothers. His younger brother, Nagendra Babu is a film producer and a actor. His youngest brother, Pawan Kalyan, is also a actor. Chiranjeevi did his schooling in Nidadavolu, Gurajala, Bapatla, Ponnuru, Mangalagiri and Mogalturu. After high school he studied in C.S.R.Sharma Junior College at Ongole. He then graduated from Y.N. College in Narasapur with a B.Com degree. He is an NCC cadet.Chiranjeevi had participated in the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi as an NCC cadet in the early 70s. In 1977, after his graduation at Y.N. College in Narsapuram, Chiranjeevi moved to Chennai to seek a career in acting.

Acting career

Chiranjeevi was a student at the Madras Film Institute and an amateur stage actor. His first public performance was in the Republic Day parade ballet of Andhra Pradesh on 26 January, 1976. His film debut was Punadhirallu (1978).



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Personal life

Chiranjeevi married Surekha, daughter of eminent yesteryear comedian Allu Rama Lingaiah, on February 20, 1980. He has 3 children, eldest daughter Susmitha, son Ram Charan Teja, and another daughter Sreeja

Politics
Chiranjeevi's foray into politics was highly anticipated in the media and political circles .While it was reported that he was seeking opinion of people during the latter half of 2007, the media also suggested that he would announce the decision in January 2008. Even before the party's launch, several political leaders from the Andhra Pradesh such as Harirama Jogaiah from Congress Party and K. Vidyadhar Rao , B. Nagi Reddy , Tammineni Seetharam , Ganta Srinivasa rao and many more from the Telugu Desam Party openly declared that they would join the party.

Chiranjeevi inaugurated his party office in Jubilee Hills,Hyderabad on August 10, 2008.On August 17, 2008 Chiranjeevi has addressed a press conference in his party office to announce his entry into politics.

On August 26, 2008 in the public meeting held at Avilala near Tirupati, he announced the party name as Praja Rajyam saying the Rajyam (Rule) belongs to Praja (People). He unveiled the party flag in this meeting.

He has completed several trips meeting people all across the three regions of Andhra Pradesh since October 2008.

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Awards

Nandi Awards

* 1987—Best Actor Golden Nandi Award for Swayamkrushi
* 1992—Best Actor Golden Nandi Award for Aapathbandhavudu
* 2002—Best Actor Golden Nandi Award for Indra

Filmfare Awards

1982—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Punnami Naagu
1984—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Subhalekha
1988—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Rudraveena
1993—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Muta Mesthri
1999—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Sneham Kosam
2002—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Indra (film)
2004—Filmfare Best Actor (Telugu) for Shankar Dada MBBS
2007- Filmfare Life Time Achievement Amard

Special Honours

2006—Padma Bhushan
2006—Doctorate