About CM KCR

Sri Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao TS CM

Sri Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (born 17 February 1954), abbreviated KCR and sri KCR is the first and current Chief Minister of the  Telangana State. He is president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, a regional party in India. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Gajwel Medak district Telangana. Previously, he served as Member of the Legislative Assembly and also Siddipet MP Mahbubnagar and Karimnagar. He was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the new state of Telangana June 2, 2014 He was the Minister of Labour and Employment.

Early life:
Cm KCR was born February 17, 1954 at Chintamadaka village, Siddipet Mandal, Medak district of Telangana in a native family of Velama Mohinikunta, a village in the vicinity of Karimnagar district which is also located in the state of Telangana. He attained a master's degree in literature from Telugu Osmania University Arts College, Osmania, Hyderabad.

political career
Congress Party
KCR started his career with the youth Congress party in Medak district, controlled by Sanjay Gandhi in the 1970s.

Telugu Desam
KCR joined the TDP in 1983 and contested against A.Madan Mohan and lost the election. He won four consecutive Siddipet Assembly elections between 1985 and 1999 From 1987 to 1988, he served as Minister of drought relief in the cabinet of Mr. NT Ramarao. In 1990 he was appointed leader of TDP Medak, Nizamabad and Adilabad districts. In 1996, he served as Minister of Transport in the cabinet of Mr. Naidu Chandrababau. He was also the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of Andhra Pradesh in 2000-2001.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi 

For more information: Separate Telangana state movement

Life-size cutout of K Chandrashekar Rao, the prime minister head of Telangana state, a prime location in the capital Hyderabad. 
On April 27, 2001 Rao resigned as vice president and TDP MLA. He said that politicians in the region have been deleted and found that the separate state is the only solution. In April 2001, he formed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to campaign for his separatist agenda. 

In the elections of 2014, Rao announced the first member of the Legislative Assembly of Telangana Rashtra Samithi candidate of Armoor, Jeevan Reddy Telangana to Asannagari. This was the first announcement ever to MLA candidates for the 2014 elections by political parties in Telangana. Shortly after, he became the first chief minister of Telangana by winning 63 of the 119 Assembly seats, including Armoor. The party also won 11 of 17 seats in the Lok Sabha in the state. 

In the 2004 elections, Rao won Siddipet Assembly constituency State and also the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, both as a TRS candidate.The TRS fought the 2004 general elections in alliance with the Indian National Congress and Rao was one of five candidates TRS that were returned as members. 

TRS was part of the coalition government United Progressive Alliance led by the Congress. The party later withdrew from the coalition, saying that the Alliance was not the spirit of supporting a separate Telangana state.In 2004, he fought the Lok Sabha polls and became a minister of the Union of Labour and Employment in the UPA government at the Centre-1. He resigned in 2006 In 2009, Rao fought and won the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha by-election for the TRS, the party was defeated in the general election as part of the opposition coalition led by TDP. In 2014, elected as MP for the constituency of Medak Dist Gajwel Telangana state with a majority of 19,218 and as MP for the constituency of Medak with a majority of 397,029 on 16-5-2014. In Telangana, the TRS, which led the campaign for a separate state for over a decade, emerged victorious, winning 11 of the 17 seats in the Lok Sabha and 63 of the 119 Assembly seats, and has emerged as the party the largest share of the vote. KCR was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Telangana state at 12h57 on June 2, the day the new state is born. Rao, a staunch believer in astrology, numerology and Vaastu, you learn to have fixed this time for his coronation as the council of priests based on his lucky number "six" 

Personal life

Chandrashekhar Rao Kalvakuntla is married to Shobha and has two children. His son, KT Rama Rao, is a legislator Sircilla, Karimnagar district, Telangana. He is now the Minister of Information and Panchayat Raj departments. His daughter, Kavitha Kalvakuntla is Nizamabad MP, Telangana. His nephew Harish Rao is Siddipet MLA and now minister for irrigation, Legislative Affairs and Marketing in the Telangana government.