Y S Rajasekhara Reddy Biography, Political career, Death News, Photos, Videos

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Y S Rajasekhara Reddy Biography

Full Name: Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy
Born :8 July 1949(1949-07-08)
Birth Place: Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh
Spouse(s): VijayalakshmiChildren :Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (son) Sharmila (daughter)
Religion :Christianity
Political party:Indian National Congress
Died: 2 September 2009 (aged 60)
Andhra Pradesh, India

Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (son)

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy was born at Jammalamadugu Mission Hospital near Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh to Y S Raja Reddy and Jayamma . His schooling was in Bellary where his father was a contractor for irrigation canal projects. He graduated with a degree in medical science from Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College (MRMC) Gulbarga University, Karnataka.

Completed his House Surgeonship at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. He was the elected leader of the House Surgeon’s Association at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati.

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy practiced medicine for sometime in his native Kadapa District. The hospital his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. His 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 run by his family.

Political career

YSR, was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.[2] He represented the Indian National Congress party. He was elected to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Lok Sabha from the Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for five terms from the Pulivendula constituency. As an MLA he was influential in obtaining water from the Tungabhadra River for the Pulivendula Branch Canal (PBC) and fought for projects like RTPP (Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant) at Muddanur and Proddatur Milk Foods and its ancillaries.

He was President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice: 1983–1985 and 1998–2000. As the president of APCC, Reddy rendered yeoman services to the party in regaining the faith and trust of the masses. From 1999 to 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the eleventh state assembly.

In 2003 he undertook a three month long paadayaatra, or walking tour, across several districts in Andhra Pradesh.

Chief Minister

He was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after they later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections.

YSR initiated a variety of programs that

1, influence the Economy of Andhra Pradesh including free power supply for farmers,

2, A large scale program to construct more than 70 pending irrigation projects in the state to improve irrigation facilities to the farmers,

3, increase in the minimum support price for rice.

4,Rajiv Arogya Shree Program: a health insurance scheme for rural masses where the government pays the entire price of any surgery upto 200,000 rupee and does not require people to pay any premium

5, Pavala Vaddi – a program that provides loans to people at 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural women,

6, Indiramma illu – a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by charging a small amount and the government the remaining amount, a Rs 2/Kg rice scheme, reimbursement of full college fees for backward sections, reservations for minorities, and a huge loan waiver program for the farmers

Reddy was sworn in as the chief minister for the term of 2009–2014 on 20 May 2009. The ceremony was held in Hyderabad’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium and attended by a crowd of around 20,000 people.

Death News, Photos, Videos

Y. S Rajasekhara Reddy’s Bell 430 helicopter went missing on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 9:35 am. Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the chopper at 9:02 am while it was passing through the dense Nallamala forest area.

The wreckage of the helicopter was finally spotted by IAF Dhruv more than 24 hours after contact was lost with Reddy’s Bell 430 helicopter.The Indian Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the chopper’s crash on the morning of 3 September and the death of all aboard, including Reddy, his special secretary P Subrahmanyam, chief security officer ASC Wesley, Group Captain SK Bhatia and Captain MS Reddy.

Reddy’s body will be buried on September 4 at Pulivendula in Kadapa district.