YSR full name is Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy
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Dr Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (born 8 July 1949), also known as YSR, is the incumbent Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Ysr represents the Congress party. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Kadapa constituency for four times and got elected to A.P. Assembly for four times from Pulivendula constituency.
Ysr graduated in medical science from Gulbarga 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.
YS Rajasekhara Reddy was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after the later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections. [2] The Government initially consisted of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) which later withdrew its support owing to the lack of progress in the process of formation of a separate Telangana State.[3]
Having come to power by promising to be a pro-poor and pro-farmer government, he has taken up and implemented several programs for the benefit of the same. Prominent among these schemes include, the Jala Yagnam scheme - aimed at completing all the pending irrigation projects in the state and bring an additional 1 lakh acres of land into irrigation, the Arogya shri scheme - where people from the villages are provided high end emergency medical services, the free power supply to farmers and the 1 kg rice for 2 rupees scheme. The opposition parties how ever alleged that all his schemes are marred with high scale of corruption and favoritism
Agriculture forms the core of Dr.YSR’s world of thinking. Although a Physician by profession,Dr.YSR is basically a son of the soil; a RAITHU BIDDA in its true sense. 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. He has always been in the forefront of leading several struggles for irrigation projects. After essaying the role of a policy maker Dr.YSR has been translating his dream of providing water for the thirsty fields into a reality.In pursuing his wish of transforming our state into a greener one - the dream of a HARITHANDHRAPRADESH - Dr.YSR allocated in the first Two years of his rule a sum of Rs.16000 Crore for building irrigation projects. Providing Houses for the homeless is yet another area which occupies a crucial importance in Dr.YSR’s priorities. YSR allocated morethan 500 crores of Rupees for this sector alone.
