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K Chandrashekar Rao

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  • Born 17 February 1954
  • Age 70
  • Birth Place Chintamadaka, Hyderabad State, India, (present-day, Telangana, )
  • Profession Politician, Author
  • Political Party Bharat Rashtra Samithi (since 2001)
  • In Office 1st Chief Minister Of Telangana 2 June 2014 - 7 December 2023, Union Minister Of Labour & Employment 27 November 2004 - 24 August 2006, Union Minister Of Ports, Shipping & Waterways 22 May 2004 - 25 May 2004, Member Of Parliament, Lok Sabha 2009-2014, President Of The Telangana Rashtra Samithi 27 April 2001 - 5 October 2022, 15th Deputy Speaker Of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly 17 November 1999 - 1 May 2001, Minister Of Transport, Government Of Andhra Pradesh 19 December 1996 - 11 October 1999, Minister Of Drought & Relief, Government Of Andhra Pradesh 1987-1988, Member Of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly 1985-2004
  • Residence Chinthamadaka, Telangana, India

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K Chandrashekar Rao BIOGRAPHY

Last Updated : 07 Feb 2025
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, often referred to as KCR, is a prominent Indian politician born on February 17, 1954. Currently the leader of the opposition in the Telangana Legislative Assembly, he represents the Gajwel constituency. KCR is the founder and president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BR...

K Chandrashekar Rao PERSONAL LIFE

Spouse K. Shobha ​(1969), ​
Children K. T. Rama Rao (son), K. Kavitha (daughter)
Education Osmania University

POSITIONS HELD BY K Chandrashekar Rao

Position Tenure
Member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly N/A
Member of the 16th Lok Sabha N/A
Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways 22 May 2004 - 25 May 2004
Minister of Labour and Employment 27 November 2004 - 24 August 2006
Chief Minister of Telangana 2 June 2014 - 3 December 2023

K CHANDRASHEKAR RAO NEWS

First K Kavitha interview since ouster from BRS: 'Zero communication with brother, not in touch with father'

September 20, 2025 12:54 pm

"I am certainly going to be in active politics. About launching a party, I have not decided as of today," says the former BRS leader

The K Kavitha case signals deeper problems in India's regional parties

September 04, 2025 1:31 pm

Health of Indian democracy depends not only on free and fair elections between parties, but also on democracy within them

PC Ghose inquiry report: Telangana HC refuses to grant interim orders in plea by Chandrashekar Rao, orders govt to take down report summary online

August 22, 2025 3:03 pm

The Telangana High Court recorded the State's submission that the commission's report on alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram Project will be first placed for debate in the Assembly before taking any action on its findings.

Telangana ‘snooping’: Top-secret letters by telecom providers blew lid off ‘illegal surveillance’ during BRS regime

August 07, 2025 9:15 am

Phone-Tapping Case: Official documents and detailed conversations with investigators reveal what forms the backbone of Telangana’s case against 5 top police and intelligence officers and a TV channel operator, accused of illegal snooping on 600 individuals using the state’s anti-Naxal surveillance mechanisms.

TV channel office 'attacked by BRS student wing' in Hyderabad for airing news linking KCR to phone tapping case

June 29, 2025 8:12 am

2 employees injured, cars damaged and glass facede broken, police say

Amid BRS family feud, Kavitha’s Hyderabad rail roko call sets up a litmus test

June 28, 2025 9:22 am

Amid an unabating feud with her brother and the party’s working president, K T Rama Rao, Kavitha has called a rail roko in Hyderabad on that day to demand the implementation of 42% reservation for Backward Classes (BC) in local body elections.

'Truth will come out’ – KTR after former chief minister KCR appears before Kaleshwaram commission

June 12, 2025 3:45 am

The former Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao appeared before the PC Ghose Commission in Hyderabad.

K Kavitha’s letter to her father KCR ‘leaked’, she says he is ‘surrounded by demons’

May 24, 2025 7:59 am

BRS leader says she wrote the letter based on feedback she received ‘from leaders in the party and the people of Telangana’

Takeaways from KCR’s first rally in almost 2 years: Invoking Lord Ram to calling for dialogue with Naxals

April 28, 2025 2:24 pm

Aware of his party’s slide in rural constituencies in the last two elections, BRS chief reaches out to farmers, targets CM Revanth Reddy for not fulfilling promise to hike aid under Rythu Bandhu Scheme

With KCR back in the thick of action, how BRS is planning its Telangana comeback

February 24, 2025 7:41 pm

Enthused by the return of its leader in the public eye, the state's former ruling party strategises on how to take on the Congress government of Revanth Reddy.

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