He is currently the leader of the Telugu Desam Party, a leading party in Andhra Pradesh.
He was first elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1978 and served as a Congress minister between 1978 and 1983. He was again elected to the Assembly in 1989 as TDP MLA and served as General Secretary and "Co-ordinator" of TDP between 1989 and 1994. In 1994, he was reelected to the assembly. After serving as finance minister for some time, he was elected chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in September 1995. He ruled as the Chief Minister of the state from 1995 to 2004, a period of 9 years. In 2004, the TDP-BJP combine lost the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections to Y S Reddy.
Naidu, as he is popularly and shortly known, was able to attract massive Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into his state with a totally professional and electronic governing style, completely alien to Indian politics. He was successful to the extent that both Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States, as well as Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, visited his state to review both development and prospects of FDI. He was thus awarded The Best Businessman of 2002 by a popular Indian financial daily, called The Economic Times.
External links
Profile on his website (http://www.cbnaidu.com/cm/cmpro.htm)
Photo (http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BSEvHNj8nToJ:www.chandrababunaidufanclub.com/cnfc32.jpg) of Chandrababu Naidu with Bill Gates
Photo (http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-cLj4P_-9uAJ:www.chandrababunaidufanclub.com/cnfc41.jpg) of Chandrababu Naidu with Bill Clinton
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