Now CBN and TDP will have to come back to do the same!
Restore Telugu pride and honour.
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Monday 10 March 2014
Chandrababu Naidu - Voted as Model Chief Minister by India Today Magazine in 2003
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Naidu voted as Model Chief Minister in 2003 by India Today
Chandrababu Naidu was voted number 1. Who came at number 2? Narendra Modi, CM of Gujarat!!!
This is a poser that tests the popularity of chief ministers across the country. Having ranked chief ministers by their net popularity ratings in their respective states, we felt some of them were emerging as models for the nation.
Therefore, we asked all 17,500 voters surveyed who the best chief minister was. About 15 per cent named N. Chandrababu Naidu, 8 per cent Narendra Modi and 7 per cent Mayawati and Sushil Kumar Shinde.
While Naidu was more popular among educated young voters in the urban areas, more of Mayawati's support came from across age groups in rural areas, predominantly illiterate Muslims and Dalits.
The myth that Indians vote largely along caste lines was undermined by the fact that while Shinde, a scheduled caste, is more popular among the upper castes, Mayawati, another Dalit leader, draws most of her popularity from the scheduled castes. While Modi from the backward community is more popular among the upper-caste Hindus, Naidu draws his overwhelming support from the OBC voters.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/n-chandrababu-naidu-emerges-as-model-chief-minister/1/206091.html
Hitec City: Achievements of Chandrababu Naidu - TDP
Soon after India started witnessing an IT revolution, the government of AP, then chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, realised the need for infrastructure to attract investments of several IT companies. It was a well known fact that a large number of IT professionals working in Silicon valley and other technology hubs were from this region. This prompted the government to start the project with private investments.
The project was commissioned initially with L&T ECC and was named L&T INFOCITY. Then several other companies started to partner with the government after the project's success. Vijayawada IT Zone is the first IT/ITES SEZ Project in Coastal Andhra, providing a totally integrated township for discerning IT professionals to work and live. The Project is being developed by Larsen and Toubro Limited through its Special Purpose Vehicle, L&T Hitech City Limited, a joint venture company of L&T Infocity Limited and Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Limited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITEC_City
When US President Bill Clinton came to Hyderabad to meet Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu in year 2000
 The shift of focus from the medieval majesty of the Charminar to the futuristic spiral called Cyber Towers is perhaps symbolic of the man who runs the place: Chandrababu Naidu is no sentimental digger of past glory, he is a no-nonsense mechanic of the future. He is not bringing President Clinton here for a lazy tour of Hyderabad’s rich history, he is bringing him here for a hectic session on putting its future on the fast track. So while the old city around the Charminar remains mired in smoke and humdrum mess and bustle, the route to Cyber Towers is being rubbed, washed and polished. As platoons of security people watched, platoons of workmen and women laboured along the 20 kilometre road all day today, sweeping, whitewashing, mending, painting. “We must give the US President the message that this is a different place from what he might have seen in the rest of the country, it has fixed intentions for the future,” one of Naidu’s officials remarked at the Cyber Towers, “We are showcasing the future for him.” The subtext of Naidu’s welcome line to Clinton, plastered all over the Hi-tec City, sprawling west of Hyderabad, is itself blunt and businesslike, if also a little cheeky, “Chandrababu Naidu welcomes President Bill Clinton. Welcome to the future, from one visionary to another.” President Clinton is spending only five hours in Hyderabad and half that time will be strictly business at the Hi-tec City — first, listening to a presentation from Chandrababu Naidu on investment prospects and information technology initiatives in Andhra Pradesh and then, opening his own mind on what he proposes to do to propel Naidu’s great leap forward. The rest of the time will mostly be taken up motoring from the airport to the Hi-tec City and then back, in all about 50 kilometres which the President’s cavalcade will do at cruising speeds; Clinton will visit tuberculosis patients at the Mahavir Hospital in downtown Hyderabad but that is more a healing-touch, photo-op stop en route to Cyber Towers. Patients at the hospital will be pleased — they have clean sheets and extra care a day ahead. |
Chandrababu Naidu's Achievements As Chief Minister
Elections to the 11th term of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly were held in 1999. This election is etched in history as the first election held after NTR’s death. 2,104 candidates were in fray contesting for a total of 294 assembly constituencies.
The Telugu Desam Party continued to rule in the state, owing to the massive mass support and popularity to Nara Chandrababu Naidu, who continued his role as chief minister of the state.
The TDP won with a thumping majority, bagging 180 assembly seats, compared with 91 seats won by the Congress. Distinguished Indian economist and ex-governor of the Reserve Bank of India C. Rangarajan was the governor of Andhra Pradesh during this period.
K. Pratibha Bharati was the speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, being the first woman speaker in the state.
N. Chandrababu Naidu as the chief minister of the state for his second term brought about some phenomenal contributions in AP, promising to turn it into the “Asian Tiger” for the next two decades.
He was awarded the South Asian of the Year award by the Time magazine as well as the Business Person of the Year award by The Economic Times for his efficient management of the state that turned a rural, backward, impoverished society into an IT hub, generating employment not only for the youth of Andhra Pradesh, but across the country. .
As short-term sacrifices to bring about the much-needed long-term developments, Naidu slashed subsidies in food and increased power taxes. In return, he established Hyderabad as a world-class city.
The credit for developing Hyderabad into a major IT, Pharma and Healthcare center goes to CBN.
Hitec City, Gachibowli were developed as IT centers during his term as CM.
http://www.elections.in/andhra-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/1999-election-results.html
Sunday 9 March 2014
Amara Raja chief Jayadev Galla joins TDP
HYDERABAD, MARCH 8:
The Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Amara Raja Group, former Chief of CII-AP, Jayadev Galla today formally took the plunge into politics. He joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and announced intentions to contest from Guntur to the Lok Sabha in the ensuing general elections.
The young, US-educated corporate honcho, who has steered Amara Raja to a over Rs 3,500 crore entity, has been nurturing political ambitions, with an eye to bring in change for the last couple of years.
Jayadev Galla and his mother Galla Aruna Kumari, a former minister of Mines in the Kiran Kumar Reddy led Cong(I) Government, joined the TDP in the presence of N Chandrababu Naidu.
The Gallas entry into TDP, marks the family from Chittor, severing a 7-decade long association with the Congress Party. Jayadev’s grandfather, Rajagopala Naidu was also an MP. They have a strong industrial presence in the district, providing employment to thousands of families at Amara Raja’s factories.
Asked, why he chose TDP instead of Cong (I), Jayadev told Business Line that developing a State requires somebody with vision, track record to lead and Chandrababu has these ingredients, so I chose the TDP.
For the residuary AP, the loss of Hyderabad is a big blow to regain, but the opportunity to develop a new State is equally challenging. The entrepreneurship in Seemandhra can be catalysed by a good government and vision, which the TDP chief can provide, he said.
Interestingly, the Gallas also hail from Chittoor, the home district of Naidu. Aruna Kumari was elected to the State Assembly from Chandragiri three times and served as a minister under different chief ministers. Jayadev, infact, got his initial lessons into politics managing campaigns for his mother.
On choosing Guntur and Parliament, he said his father-in-law, Telugu superstar Gattamaneni Krishna’s family is strong there. Mahesh Babu, the present big star is his brother-in-law and also his grandfather’s association with NG Ranga are a big plus. The city also has a pre-dominantly urban voter, to whom he can appeal.
" I feel I am better suited to Parliament, where my skills can come to play a role in the policies that are framed", he says. As CII-AP head, he was instrumental in the shaping of the employment intensive `Rajiv Yuva Kiranulu’ project as well as regional development initiatives.
"Politics is not a way or means to strengthen our business, but I see it as a way to make a change and bring better value and accelerate the processes of development", says the physical fitness-freak, 48 year old Jayadev Galla.
Source: The Hindu
Source: The Hindu
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/industrialist-galla-jayadev-joins-tdp/article5764123.ece
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