KCR Age
Chief Minister of Telegana KCR was born 17 February 1954. He is 64 years old.
KCR Family
KCR was born to Raghavar Rao and Venkatamma in a village named Chintamadaka in Medak district, Hyderabad on 17 February 1954.
Later he tied the knot with Shobha, a daughter of a freedom fighter, J.Keshava Rao, from Kodurpaaka, on 23 April 1969 and bears two children.
His son K. T. Rama Rao is a legislator from Sirisilla, Karimnagar district, Telangana, while his daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha is a Member of Parliament from Nizamabad, Telangana.
KCR has 9 sisters and 1 elder brother. Soon KCR has good command over languages like Telugu, English, Urdu, and Hindi. He lives with his family at the official chief minister residence, Pragathi Bhavan in Hyderabad City.
KCR Photos
KCR Education
He attained a MA degree in Literature from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
KCR Biography
KCR started his career with the youth Congress party in Medak district.
Later he joined Telugu Desam Party led by NT.Rama Rao in 1983 and contested against A.Madan Mohan and lost that election.
Soon he won four consecutive Assembly elections from Siddipet 1985 and 1999. From 1987–1988, he worked as Minister of Drought & Relief in N. T. Rama Rao’s cabinet.
In 1990, he was appointed as TDP convener for Medak, Nizamabad, and Adilabad districts. In 1996, he worked as Transport minister in Chandrababu Naidu’s cabinet.
Later he also served as the deputy speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly from 2000–2001.
KCR TRS
On 27 April 2001, Rao resigned as Deputy Speaker, TDP Party as well. Later he believed that Telangana region is discriminated and separate state is the only solution.
In April 2001, he formed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) Party at Jala Drushyam, Hyderabad to achieve Telangana statehood.
Later in the elections of 2004, Rao won the Siddipet state assembly constituency 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 with a Promise of Congress Party to give Telangana State and Rao was one of the five TRS candidates who was returned as MPs.
Soon he went on to become a Union Cabinet minister of Labour and Employment in the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre. The party later withdrew from the coalition, saying that the Alliance was not minded to support a separate Telangana state.
He has resigned as MP in 2006 on a challenge of Congress and Won with a Huge Majority of more than 200,000 votes. Again he resigned as MP in agitation of Telangana movement and won with a minor Majority.
In 2009, Rao fought and won the Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha elections. The TRS party fought the general elections as part of the opposition coalition led by TDP.
In 2014, people elected KCR as MLA from Gajwel Assembly Constituency of Medak Dist of Telangana State with a majority of 19,218 and as MP from Medak (Lok Sabha constituency) with a majority of 397029 on 16 May 2014
KCR CM
In Telangana, the TRS, which led the campaign for a separate State for more than a decade, emerged victorious by winning 11 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats and 63 of the 119 Assembly seats, and emerged as the party with the largest vote share in 2014.
KCR became first chief minister of the Telangana state at 12.57 pm on 2 June 2014. Rao, a staunch believer in astrology, numerology and Vaastu, had fixed this time for his inauguration as per the advice of priests to suit his lucky number ‘six’.
Later Party Member re-elected KCR 8 times as TRS president. Soon his welfare programs revived the rural economy and focused on the development of each community.
An intensive household survey, government conducted Samagra Kutumba Survey (SKS) in a single day on 19 August 2014 across the state to arrive at citizen information for rolling out welfare programs.
The data collected pertaining to 94 parameters, covered one crore four lakh households in the State
KCR Caste
Rao comes from Velama community, a forward caste in Telangana