Marriage of the decade in August

Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu’s son, Lokesh, will marry Tollywood top hero Balakrishna’s daughter, Brahmani, in the last week of August. “The marriage of the decade” will have far reaching implications on the politics of Andhra Pradesh. Image Courtesy: Eenadu.

Though Chandrababu Naidu is against marriages within close relatives, he agreed to this alliance because of bride’s great qualities like intelligence, middle class behaviour and good upbringing. Chandrababu Naidu married Balakrishna’s sister Bhuvaneswari. So this alliance will further strengthen the relations between both families.

Lokesh is studying MBA at Stanford while Brahmani has just written her 3rd year engineering exams.

It dispelled all the rumours about Balakrishna’s political plans like joining Congress or announcing a new party.

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Telugu Desam party: 25 years of journey

Milestones in Telugu Desam Party history:
1. Before 1982 –politics in Andhra means – The congress party and its inner politics which was ruling the state since 1953. Even though there was communist party but with little significance and not as an alternative to the congress party. But since 1983, Telugu Desam Party changed the scenario and equations in Andhra Pradesh.

2. There was not much recognition to A.P at national level. People in other states call the Telugu people as Madrasis (even though A.P was separated from Tamilnadu 30 years back).

3. T.D.P restored the self respect of the Telugu speaking pupil. Now Telugu language was used extensively in the administration of the A.P government and the central government at Delhi could not change the chief ministers often as did previously in the congress government.

4. N.T.Ramarao in his special van (enlightened chariot) travelled through each and every village and town of A.P state and covered 35,000 kilometers in the entire state. NTR used to take bath on the road side and visited the nook and corner of entire state. He reacted to their grievances sympathetically and won their hearts forever.

5. Social revolution: He changed the political fortunes of backward class people in Andhra Pradesh. The thought of constructing pucca permanent buildings to the poor for the first time was the brain child of T.D.P only .The programme of giving rice for Rs.2/- per kilogram made N.T.Ramarao Rao the living God.

6. Abolition of Karanamns and creation of Mandal administration, 30% reservation for women are other daring acts of Telugu Desam government.

7. Even though T.D.P is a regional party. It played a key role in the central level and also acted as a main opposition in the Parliament during 1984-89.

8. Telugu Desam got a good name as a party of having honest polices and also kept the promises given by it to the people.

9. T.D.P believes that hard work only gives good results. The administration went to the villages and conducted village level meetings and also Janmabhoomi propramme by which it brought the administration to the door step of people.

10. It is the most disciplined party among Indian political parties.

Telugu Desam party stood united in the turbulent periods of 1984 August crisis, 1989 defeat and 2004 crash. There is an urgent need to reenergize the party by including more youth in the party administration. Chandrababu Naidu should steer the party away from money politics.

Jai Telugu Desam! Jai Jai NTR‼

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Telugu Desam Party (TDP) - Silver Jubilee year (1982-2007)

Telugu Desam Party successfully completed 25 years of political life. It was founded by N.T.Ramarao (NTR) to change the political scenario in Andhra Pradesh. He came to power within 9 months of Telugu Desam inception. He successfully defeated Congress party which is in power since 1952.

Major incidents in Telugu Desam history:

1. October 1981: NTR announced his intention to dedicate himself to serve the Telugu people for 15 days in a month since his 60th birthday. This was happened in “Sardar Paparaidu” film shooting. NTR got his inspiration to serve people from Hindu spiritual guru Swami Vivekananda.

2. March 28, 1982: NT Ramarao formed officially a political steering committee of 13 members.

3. March 29, 1982: NTR announced the formation of Telugu Desam Party at 2:30 PM as he was a strong believer of Astrology.

4. April11, 1982: First public meeting of Telugu Desam Party was held in Hyderabad at Nizam Collage Grounds. More than 80,000 people attended to that meeting which was never happened in Andhra politics. Main supported to NTR is Nadendla Bhaskara Rao, an ex-congress minister.

5. May 27-29, 1982: First “Mahanadu” (Party’s annual meeting) was held in Tirupati. It was a grand success. Lakhs of people from all over the Andhra Pradesh attended to that party meeting.

6. NTR extensively campaigned for the 1983 elections for 9 months from May 1982 to January3, 1983. He ended his campaign in Tirupati where the first meeting was held.

7. January 5, 1983: It was the polling day for the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.

8. Assembly Results: Telugu Desam won 203 seats while Congress won 60 seats. Other parties won in 30 constituencies.

9. NTR became the first non-congress chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

10. He gave importance to 3 things in political or personal life:

A. Morality
B. Honesty
C. Discipline.

August Turmoil:

11. June 9, 1984: NT Ramarao went to America for a health check-up and was diagnosed as suffering from Heart disease. He returned to India and went back to United stated in August. He was operated (by-pass surgery) by famous surgeon Dr. Dental Coolie. He returned to India on August 14, 1984.

12. During this period, Nadendla Bhaskara Rao revolted against NTR and Telugu Desam was in disarray due to politics in the party.

13. August 16, 1984: Ramlal, Andhra Governor, dismissed the Telugu Desam government and invited Nadendla to sworn in as Chief Minister.

14. Public rebelled against these events and observed strikes and agitations in support of NTR dismissal.

15. As situation worsened in the state, the central government recalled Ramlal and sent Sankardayal Sarma as new governor of Andhra Pradesh.

16. September 20, 1984: NTR proved his majority and again became Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. This was a unbelievable incident at that time.

17. NTR sent a letter to the governor recommending the dissolution of the Assembly.

18. Telugu Desam won 35 Loksabha seats in the Parliament elections while Congress swept the polls all over the country due to sentiment caused by Indira Gandhi’s death.

19. March 9, 1985: NTR became the chief minister for the third time after winning 1985 assembly elections. TDP won in 202 assembly constituencies.

20. NT Ramarao formed the National front to unite the opposition parties at the national level.

21. 1989 Assembly elections: Telugu Desam lost these elections and Congress came to power.

22. September 11, 1993: NTR married Laxmiparvathi.

23. 1994 Assembly Elections: Telugu Desam came to power by winning 213 assembly elections while Congress got just 26 seats. NTR sworn in as Chief Minister for the fourth time and as 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

24. Troubles started in TDP and party divided into two factions.

A. NTR TDP - NTR faction.
B. Official TDP - Chandrababu faction.

25. September 1, 1995: N. Chandrababu Naidu sworn in as 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

26. 1999 Assembly Elections: Telugu Desam won the elections and Chandrababu sworn in as chief Minister for the second time.

27. 2004 Assembly Elections: Congress party came to power by defeating Telugu Desam.

28. NT Ramarao tenure as Chief Minister was 7 ½ years.

29. Chandrababu tenure as Chief Minister was 9 years.

Emergence of Telugu Desam is a significant change in Andhra Pradesh politics. NTR was the only leader in national politics who can match Indira Gandhi in attracting people.

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NTR in the WEEK magazine's list of 25 street fighters

The WEEK magazine included Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR) as street fighter in its Republic Day special. The magazine listed 25 great street fighters from all over India. L.K.Advani of BJP, Mamata Banarjee of Trinamool Congress, Spiritual Guru Baba Ramdev, Anna Hazare, Medha Patkar, VHP president Ashok Singhal and Revolutionary Singer Gaddar are other eminent personalities in the list.

Highlights of the Article:

• He was an actor for many years, before he joined politics by launching Telugu Desam Party 1982.
• His famous slogan is "Arise, awaken, the Telugu nation is calling". He was inspired by Swami Vivekananda.
• His political philosophy was based on the self respect of the Telugu People.
• Theatricality was NTR's hallmark.
• NTR became the chief minister of Andhra pradesh in 1983 just with in the 9 months of Telugu Desam party formation.
• His mentor is MGR (Tamilnadu chief minister at that time) in politics.
• NT Rama Rao announced many populist schemes like Rs.2 per Kg of rice.
• He is the only political leader who can match Indira Gandhi in charisma.
• He believed that society was his temple and the poor man, the GOD in it.
• NTR was never charged with corruption. He did not allow anyone to make money on the files he signed.
• NTR died in 1996 at the age of 73.

We may never see a political personality like NT Rama Rao in the Andhra politics.

View NT Ramarao speech on the occasion of Ugaadi festival

Every Telugu Desam Party activist wants to see our "ANNA" (NT Ramarao) speech as many times as possible. Nandamurifans.com uploaded NTR speech (wishes) to Telugu people as a Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on the occasion of Telugu New Year (ugaadi) festival.
You can view Nandamuri taraka Ramarao speech with his ususal mannerisms in wonderful Telugu. To view more videos visit nandamurifans.com.

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NTR is the greatest Andhraite in CNN-IBN Poll

Telugu Desam Party founder Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao was elected as greatest Andhraite in the CNN-IBN Poll. NTR got more than 70% votes polled indicating his populrity among ANDHRA PRADESH people.
Telugu actor Chiranjeevi is in second place with just 23% votes. No other person including Satyasai Baba and Sania Mirza got more than 5% votes. Poll indicated that NT Ramarao got permanent place in the hearts of Telugu people. No other person may ever replace the legend from the hearts of Andhra people. See the video with the opinion of Junior ntr.

Abdu Kalam, Mammutty and Mokshagundam Visweswaraiah got the same achievement in Tamilanadu, Kerala and Karnataka states successively.

Chandrababu Naidu in 150 Pioneers of Communications

Voice and Data Magazine selected Telugu Desam President Nara Chandrababu as one of the Pioneers of Indian Communications. In its special Issue, It praised Naidu as a great visionary.

As per Magazine, He used communications for Governance effectively. He brought out drastic changes in the way Andhra Pradesh Government functions. He advocated global thinking and the use high speed digital communication facilities in order to find a place in world map.

He conceived Andhra Pradesh broadband project for implementing E-Governance applications.

In 1995, Chandrababu Naidu became the CM of AP and under his supervision, DoT has connected all 1125 mandals in the Andhra Pradesh state with fibre-optic networks.

With this dynamic leader, AP became one of the first Wap services provider internationally.

Congrats to Chandrababu Naidu on this occasion. Keep up this vision.

What lessons Telugu Desam should learn from these By Elections

TDP lost Bobbili and got third place in Karimnagar by elections. No one in the party expected these results and party cadre again went into depressive mood. Thease are the testing times for party leadership. Telugu desam party should get into aggressive mood to lift the activists and second rung leaders into energetic mood to face the aggressive chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

Lessons from the Karimnagar and Bobbili by elections :

1. These elections high-lighted the anti government mood among the voters. But, TDP once again failed to convert them into votes.

2. Telangana voters are wanting a separate state. This slogan will once again take promonence in the 2009 Assembly elections. So, TDP leadership should understand the ground realities. It is the time Telugu desam should review its views on Telangana.

3. TDP should attack congress aggressively as this chief minister will go any extent to win the 2009 Assembly elections. He is the Lalu of Bihar. He is trying to spread the Rayalaseema faction methods to the whole state. WAKE UP AND PROTECT THE CADRE.

4. Muslims are still voting for Congress even after TDP broke its relationship with BJP. It is really a big concern for the party. In the NTR time, Andhra Pradesh muslims were voted for Telugu Desam.

5. TDP leaders should take into consideration the views of its Telangana leaders on this burning issue.

Telugu Desam Analysis on Karimnagar Elections

Telugu Desam Party is hoping to win Karimnagar by elections with this analysis:

Total Votes : 14 Lakh voters

Polled Votes : 9 Lakh (estimation)

Congress : 2-2.5 Lakh permanent votes

BJP : 1 Lakh permanent votes

TRS : 2.5-3 Lakh Volatile votes

So, TDP will get remaining 3 lakh votes. As per Telugudesam sources, Contest is mainly between Telugu Desam and Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

Expecting Majority : 25,000-40,000. Official Results will be announced on December 6,2006.

Karimnagar Loksabha constituency is located in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh.

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