Constituency Mahaboob Nagar
Born 17th Feb 1953
Chintamadaka, Medak, Andhra Pradesh
Political party Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Spouse Kalvakuntla Shobha
Children Kalvakuntla Rama Rao (son) and
Kavitha (daughter)
Residence Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.
Religion Hindu (Kamma)
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Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954) frequently abbreviated KCR, is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Mahaboobnagar constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is the president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He was the cabinet minister for Labour and Employment.
He was a member of the Telugu Desam Party until he quit the party and formed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi for the cause of Telangana as a separate state. He is the president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. TRS fought the 2004 general elections in alliance with Congress. It was able to win 5 MP seats. TRS was part of the UPA coalition government led by Congress until it had withdrawn its support sighting the reason that UPA was not in a mood to give nod for separate Telangana state.
Political career
K. Chandrashekar Rao started his political career as a student leader. Before his political career, KCR was a Gulf job consultant sending workers to West Asian countries and arranging passports for them. He joined Telugu Desam Party and from 1985 he was elected as Member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (MLA). 1987-88 he served as Minister of State for Andhra Pradesh. During 1992-93 he was chairman for Committee on Public undertakings. 1997-99 he served as Cabinet Minister. From 1999 to 2001 he served as Deputy Speaker for Andhra Pradesh state assembly after which he resigned and came out from Telugu Desam party to start a new party Telangana Rashtra Samithi with a single point agenda of achieving Telangana state. In 2004 he was elected to 14th Lok Sabha from Karimnagar[1]. He served as Union cabinet Minister for Labor & Employment (2004-2006). In 2006 he resigned as MP and got re-elected with a whopping majority of 2,00,000 over Congress contestant Jeevan Reddy. In 2008 he once again resigned along with 3 other TRS MPs and 16 MLAs, and was re-elected for second time. However, this time he was re-elected with a vastly reduced margin of 15,000 votes. KCR’s main aim was getting separate Telangana.[citation needed]He observed the pulse of Telangana people.[original research?]KCR’s main aides in his party are his son Taraka Rama Rao, who is the party’s general secretary, and his nephew T. Harish Rao, who is an MLA in the Legislative Assembly.
KCR entered into an alliance with the Telugu Desam Party although that party was originally hostile to a separate Telangana. The TRS is in an alliance with the Telugu Desam, CPI, and CPM, another party hostile to Telangana. The alliance is called Mahakutami, which has no common programme of action except dethroning the ruling Congress.
After General Elections 2009, KCR got elected to Indian Parliament.
