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.
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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
It was imperative for ChandrababuNaidu and his colleagues to realise that the party's claims to providing "good governance" and protecting the interests of Telugu-speaking people and their self-respect and its strident anti-Congressism alone would not yield electoral dividends and that the concerns of the middle and the marginal farmers had to be addressed.
ChandrababuNaidu also announced schemes to provide houses for the urban poor and bicycles to at least two lakh girls belonging to the Scheduled Castes who continued their education beyond the upper primary stage.
ChandrababuNaidu is now convinced of the need to focus on welfare measures in the countryside and in that sense move away from the idea of technology-driven growth in the capital city.
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