Nara Chandrababu Naidu, popularly known as CBN, is a prominent Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State. With a political career spanning decades, Naidu served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1995 to 2004 and held the position of Opposition Leader from 2004 to 2014. N Chandrababu Naidu also serves as the National President of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Naidu who faced a significant setback in the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections, has bounced back with a thumping Majority in 2024 Elections where his party alone got 135 of 175 seats and his alliance secured 164/175 seats leaving no opposition status to the Jagan Mohan led YSRCP.
Nara Chandrababu Naidu Biography
Nara Chandrababu Naidu is the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the National President of the Telugu Desam Party. His political career began as a student leader in Chandragiri near Tirupati. After the Emergency, he joined the Congress Party in 1978. In 1980, he married NTR’s daughter. NTR is a famous actor and founder of TDP. After his defeat by the TDP candidate in the 1983 elections, he left the Congress and joined the Telugu Desam Party.
In 1995, he rebelled against his uncle NTR and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. From then till 2004 he continued as the Chief Minister of AP. However, he could not retain power in the subsequent elections. In the 2014 assembly elections, it allied with the BJP and won 102 seats out of a total of 175 seats. He created history by serving as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the longest time. He also holds the record of serving as the leader of the opposition for a long time. In 2024 his party again got landslide victory and a big mandate from the people of Andhra Pradesh. He is currently serving as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth term.
Personal life of Nara Chandrababu Naidu
| Full Name | Nara Chandrababu Naidu |
| date of birth | 20 Apr 1950 (age 73) |
| Place of Birth | Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh |
| Party Name | Telugu Desam |
| education | Post Graduate |
| occupation | A political leader |
| Father’s Name | N. Kharjura Naidu |
| mother’s name | Grandmother |
| Spouse Name | Nara Bhuvaneswari |
| Occupation of Spouse | business |
| offspring | 1 son |
| Permanent address | Plot no. 1310, Road no. 65, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500033 |
| Current address | Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh |
| Contact no | 04023608121 |
| https://ncbn.in/ask_ncbn | |
| Website | https://ncbn.in/ |
Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s Net Worth
| Net Assets | ₹161.14 crores |
| Assets | ₹177.49 crores |
| Responsibilities | ₹16.35 Crores |
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Interesting facts about Nara Chandrababu Naidu
At the age of 28, he became the youngest MLA and minister in the state. In 1999, the TDP party led by him won 185 seats out of 294 seats in the state assembly and 29 seats out of 42 Lok Sabha seats, becoming the second-largest party in the NDA alliance. He escaped safely from a landmine attack in 2003. In that attack, his neck bones and head were injured. To go to school in his childhood, he used to walk 11 kilometres every day till the ninth standard. In 1992, he founded Heritage. The company is currently one of the largest private dairies in South India.
Political life of Nara Chandrababu Naidu
2019
In the 2019 assembly and parliamentary elections, the ruling TDP was decisively defeated by the YSR Congress Party led by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. The YSRCP achieved a landslide victory by securing 151 seats in the assembly out of 175, while the TDP could manage 23 seats. In the Lok Sabha, the TDP won three seats, while the YSRCP secured the remaining 22 seats. Naidu is currently preparing for the upcoming elections in 2024, possibly in alliance with Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena party. There has been speculation suggesting that Naidu is also attempting to regain the confidence of the BJP.
2014
- He became the Chief Minister of the divided AP after the separation of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh. On June 8, 2014, he was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the newly formed state of Andhra Pradesh.
2009
- He was elected MLA again after winning against Congress candidate M. Subramaniam Reddy from Kuppam.
2004
- Although Chandrababu won again from Kuppam, he resigned from the post of Chief Minister after the defeat of the TDP in the 2004 assembly elections. Later he was elected as the Leader of Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly and continued in that position for a long time.
1999
- Chandrababu Naidu once again contested from Kuppam in the assembly elections. In that election, he won against Congress candidate M. Subramania Reddy by a margin of 65,687 votes. He continued as the chief minister of the state.
1995
- He was sworn in as the 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on September 1, 1995.
1994
- He contested again from Kuppam and won by a margin of 56,588 votes against his opponent R. Gopinath.
1989
- Naidu who once again contested from Kuppam, Congress candidate B.R. Doraswamy won with a majority of 6918 votes. Later he worked as TDP party coordinator from 1989 to 1994.
1985
- Despite playing a key role in the TDP, he did not contest the assembly elections.
1984
- After Naidu was appointed as TDP General Secretary, he played a key role in the party. He foiled the conspiracy of the Congress party to remove NTR from the post of Chief Minister. Although this won NTR’s trust, he could not hold any ministerial post between 1984-89.
1983
- He lost to TDP candidate Venkatrama Naidu Medasani from Chandragiri constituency by a margin of 19 thousand votes. Later he joined Naidu TDP.
1980
- Chandrababu Naidu became acquainted with Nter. NTR founded the Telugu Desam Party in 1982, but Chandrababu Naidu continued in the Congress (I).
1978
- He contested the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections from Chandragiri constituency on a Congress (I) ticket and became an MLA at the age of 28. In that election, his JNP candidate Kongara Pattabhi Rama Chaudhary won by a margin of 2500 votes. Later he was appointed as the State Minister of Technical Education and Cinematography. He is the youngest in the state cabinet.
1975
- Yuvajana Congress President Sanjay Gandhi became a close friend of Narala Saikiran.
1973
- He started his political career as a youth Congress leader in Chandragiri near Tirupati in Chittoor district. Acharya N.G. Ranga left his PhD on economic ideas in the middle and entered politics.
Achievements of Nara Chandrababu Naidu
Naidu counted and received the awards. Among them, he received the IT Indian of the Millennium Award from India Today, the Business Person of the Year Award from Economic Times and the South Asian of the Year Award from Time Asia. In addition to this, they received membership in the cabinet of their dreams of the prestigious World Financial Forum. Honoured as “Transformative Chief Minister” in May 2017.
Social Media Accounts of Nara Chandrababu Naidu
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