YSR is a Natural Leader loved by common man.We all missed him.

YSR's Life History

    
 EarlyLife                                                                 

• Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy was born in a Christian family at Jammalamadugu Mission Hospital near Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh to Y S Raja Reddy and Jayamma in july 8,1949.
•  He completed his primary school in Pulivendula.
• He completd his P.U.C in Vijayawada Loyola college.
• He graduated with a degree in medical science from Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College (MRMC)Gulbarga University, Karnataka and completed his House Surgeonship at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. 
• He was the elected leader of the House Surgeon's Association at S.V. Medical College, Tirupati. 

YS parents

Y.S.Raja Reddy                                    Y.S.Jayamma

 

 

 Career      

• Y. S. Rajashekhara Reddy practiced medicine for sometime in his native Kadapa District. 
• The hospital his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. 
• His family also built and ran a degree college and a polytechnic college at Pulivendula which was later handed over to the Loyola Group of Educational Institutions. Another junior college at Simhadripuram, a small town in the vicinity of Pulivendula, is run by his family.    
  

Political Career

•  Y.S entered politics in 1975.
•   In 1978 he had taken the charge as Congress Yuvajana member.After that in 1978 he positioned as M.L.A for Reddy Congreess and won with the majority of 47,874 i.e 59.51% of total votes.
• After that he had joined in Indira Congress.
• From 1980-1983 he was a minister holding important portfolios related to Rural Development, Medical Health and Education under the Anjayya Ministry. 
• He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa constituency four times and was elected to the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly six times from Pulivendula constituency.
• In 1999 Reddy was the leader of the opposition in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly for five years. As an MLA he was influential in obtaining water from the Tungabhadra River for the Pulivendula Branch Canal (PBC) and fought for projects like RTPP (Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant) at Muddanur and Proddatur Milk Foods and its ancillaries. 

APCC President

• He was President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) twice: 1983–1985 and 1998–2000. As the president of APCC, Reddy rendered yeomen services to the party in regaining the faith and trust of the masses. From 1999 to 2004 he was the Leader of Opposition in the eleventh state assembly. 

 

 

Paadayaatra

• During mid-summer of 2003, he led a 1600 km long paadayaatra (journey by foot), covering some of the backward areas in the state to understand the ground realities and living conditions of the people there. 
• As a novice in the legislature, Reddy rallied all the Congress MLAs from the Rayalaseema region and led an indefinite hunger strike demanding solution to the water crisis. He also led a paadayaatra from Lepakshi to Pothireddipadu in Kurnool district. 

 

 

 

Chief Minister

• He was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after they later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections.
• He has initiated a variety of programs that influence the Economy of Andhra Pradesh including free power supply for farmers,  

1. Jalayagnam - a large scale program to construct more than 70 pending irrigation projects in the state to improve irrigation facilities to the farmers, and an increase in the minimum support price for rice.
2. Prominent among other programs include contraversial Rajiv Arogya Shree Program- a health insurance scheme for rural masses where the government pays the entire price of any surgery and does not require people to pay any premium, 
3. Pavala Vaddi - a program that provides loans to people at 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural woman,
4. Indiramma illu - a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by charging a small amount and the government the remaining amount, 
5. an Rs 2/Kg rice scheme,
6. Reimbursement of full college fees for backward sections, reservations for minorities, and a huge loan waiver program for the farmers.

YSR Acheivements as CM

 

 

 

 Election 2009

• Reddy's major campaign slogan for the 2009 election was "Development and the credibility ".
• In the elections, Reddy's party (INC) secured the required majority in the assembly (156 seats) and also won 33 seats in parliament.
• Reddy was sworn in as the chief minister for the term of 2009–2014 on 20 May 2009. 
• The ceremony was held in Hyderabad's Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium and attended by a crowd of around 20,000 people.

Controversies

• Opposition parties allege corruption in the implementation of Reddy's programs as well as in various other actions of both Reddy and his family. 
• In 2008, Telugu Desam Party leader N. Chandrababu Naidu accused Reddy and his family of illegally amassing income through their companies Sandur Power Company, Jagathi Publications and Bharathi Cement Corporation.
  

• He also alleged that Reddy's sons were involved in the Satyam scandal. Also, the allotment of 487 acres of land in March 2007 to Raghuram Cements, which had the son of Reddy as one of its directors, was criticised by the Telugu Desam Party.
• The surrender of more than 1600 acres by Reddy in December 2006 was also criticised by the opposition parties who demanded Reddy's prosecution and resignation from his post.
• Naidu also called for Reddy's resignation after a 2007 Khammam police shooting resulted in eight deaths.
• "I not only have 614 acres at Idupulapaya estate in Vempalli mandal. I also have another 1,000 acres in Kundur village in Rajampet between Renugunta and Kadapa town in Kadapa district. This land is unregistered, and was bought by my father (Y S Raja Reddy) as he was interested in growing trees and creating a green belt," Y S Rajashekara Reddy said during his intervention in a debate on 18th December 2006 regarding the controversy about illegal occupation of assigned land. Interestingly, he revised the quantum of land that his family possesses in Idupulapaya from 715 acres.
• Quoting rules, Y S Rajashekara Reddy maintained that no penal action can be initiated against him as he had surrendered the 310.57 acres on his own. 
• The opposition, however, including the TDP, the CPM, TRS and BJP said the exemption charges quoted by YSR was applicable to officers only and that he should resign and face prosecution.

Contravorsery Persons

 

 Personal life

• Reddy was married to Vijaya Lakshmi. in 1972 They have a son, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a politician,and a daughter, Sharmila. 
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• YSR's Marriage Invitation Card
  

 

YSR's Marriage Photos

 

 

Y.S .Jagan

 

YSR's Family

 

YS Brother

                               Y.S.Vivekananda Reddy

 

 

Death

• Y. S Rajasekhara Reddy's Bell 430 helicopter  went missing on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 9:35 am Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the chopper at 9:02 am. 
• The chopper went missing in the dense Nallamala forest area, which is associated with the outlawed Naxal communist activity. Although there had been little Naxalite activity of late, the area had been pummeled by continuous rains, making the search mission very challenging. 
• Several low altitude planes and the Indian Airforce's Sukhoi-30MKI with thermal imaging system were deployed,with an IL 78 on standby for Air-Air refueling..In the largest ever search operation in India massive ground operations were deployed which included 5000 CRPF soldiers for a search-and-rescue mission.
• The army and police from six districts were involved in the ground search. Andhra Pradesh's anti Naxal forces were also deployed in the area, owing to their familiarity with the jungle terrain there. Local tribal residents from this part of the state assisted with the search mission. Patrol parties also combed the Krishna river for the remains of the helicopter.
• ISRO's special aircraft was deployed for the searches, generating 41 images but was unable to trace the chopper. The area which was combed lies south of state capital of Hyderabad. The territory is huge, around the town of Atmakur, in the eastern part of the Kurnool district.
• The Indian Prime Minister's Office confirmed the chopper's crash in the morning of 3 September and the death of all aboard, including Reddy, his special secretary P Subrahmanyam, chief security officer ASC Wesley, Group Captain SK Bhatia and Captain MS Reddy..
• He will be buried on September 4 at Pulivendula in Kadapa district. Konjeti Rosaiah is the caretaker Chief Minister, a hunt is on in the congress for the next Chief Minister.
  
  YSR's Chopper crash
  
  
  
  
  
  

   

   Positions held

• Minister of state for rural development (1980-82)
• Excise minister (1982)
• Education minister (1982-83)
• Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (2004–2009) 

Lessons to be learnt from YSR's Life

When it comes to the life and story of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, it is no less than a memoir of rich experiences and learning points for others. So here is a gist of what lessons one can take in a point sequence.


1.Try to smile as long as you can

  
2.Talk with human touch

   3.Believe in hard work

   4.Be a strength to those who trust and rely on you

    5.Determination to achieve what one wants without rest

     6.Be fearless and take challenges head on

 7.Keep up the commitments made to others at any cost

  

8.Learn to help others and bring a difference in lives around you

  

9.Have a vision for the future and the society

  

10.Treat one and all with equality and humanity

 

 

11.Be a pillar of strength for near and dear

  

12. Self discipline and honesty

  

13.Follow the rules and set example for others around

  

14.Believe in serving for the land that you come from

  

   15.Kindness, respect and a helping hand always

Given the qualities that YS possesses, it would take a book but then if one is able to implement at least five out of these then they can bring about a huge difference to this world. That’s what YS did and that’s what he expected others to do.

Good things YSR had done

1. He is very natural leader and he easily interact with poor people.

2.  His ArogyaSri  program is very helpful for poor people who had no money for big operations,
3.  His 108,104 ambulances is very helpful.It had helped many people who is in emergency.
4.  He had announced and completed many water projects making cultivation easy for farmers.
5.  He had improved pension for the old people making them stand on their foot.
6.   He announced fee reembercement for students which maked even poor people to study degree.
7.    His kg rice for Rs.2 program is very useful for poor people which made them to survive.
8.    He had given free electricity to farmers which made cultivation easily.
9.     He had also given .25% interest for women which makes to stand on their foot.
10.    He had burdened Rs.50 on every gas cylinder which maked middle class members useful.


Despite of good things he had done he had also done bad things

1.  He had killed many members for his growth in politics.

2.  He had  lakhs of crores in swiss bank which is people's money.
3.  His projects and other things are not that perfect.
4. He gives projects and other contracts to his neighbours  making     the projects volatile.
5.  He had done development in his district and town only.
6. His Indiramma Rajyam Intinta Sowbagyam houses are very cheap and it would not last more than one year.

He is a cool man who lived for people.
He is the only cm who survived for the people.
Every body thinks he is our man his naturality is like that.
Overall our state and country had lost a great leader.
we had lost a 24 carrots telugu gold .


You will be always in our hearts forever and ever.
May your soul rest in peace.