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Описание: Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (born 24 July 1976) popularly known as K.T.R., is an Indian politician and working president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. K.T.R. is a Member of Legislative Assembly from Sircilla (Assembly constituency).He is the son of Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana and founder of Telangana Rashtra Samithi. K.T.R. has been awarded Most Inspirational Icon on the Year 2015 by CNN-IBN and Ritz Magazine. He is multi-lingual, being fluent in Telugu, English, Hindi and Urdu.
KT. Rama Rao was born in the Karimnagar district of Telangana (erstwhile Andhra Pradesh), India, on 24 July 1976. His father, K. Chandrashekhar Rao, is the founder of Telangana Rashtra Samithi and the 1st Chief Minister of Telangana and mother, K. Shobha Rao, is a home maker. His younger sister, K Kavitha, is the President of Telangana Jagruthi and a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha for the Nizamabad constituency Since 2003, K.T.R. is married to K Shailima. The couple has two children.
K.T.R. was mostly educated in a boarding school environment through 7 different schools in 10 years. At the age of ten, he moved to Hyderabad and joined the Amravati Public School at Yousufguda before shifting to Nalanda Public School at Mehdipatnam.He completed his schooling at the historic CSI-St. George's Grammar School, Abids Road. Further, he pursued Intermediate from Vignan Junior College at Vadlamudi, Guntur, and went on to graduate as BSc in Microbiology, Chemistry, Botany from Osmania University at Hyderabad. He holds two Post-Graduate degrees—MSc in Bio-Technology from University of Pune and MBA in Marketing and E-Commerce from City University of New York(CUNY), NY, USA During 1998–99, K.T.R. began his stint as an IT professional and interned at the shipping and ocean logistics firm INTTRA Inc at Madison Avenue, New York, USA
In 2006, K. Chandrasekhar Rao resigned from the United Progressive Alliance-II. K. T. Rama Rao resigned from his job to join the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and began campaigning for his father who contested for the Karimnagar Lok Sabha by-election in the same year. KCR won by a margin of over 2 lakh.K.T.R. began his political career in 2009 when he contested the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections from the Sircilla Assembly constituency. He won by a close margin of 171 votes, defeating independent candidate KK Mahender Reddy.Soon after, K.T.R. and 10 other members from the TRS resigned from the Legislative Assembly in support of a separate State for Telangana. In July 2010, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh ordered the Election Commission of India to conduct by-polls in Sircilla and Vemulawada among other towns across the Telangana region. K.T.R. contested again from Sircilla defeating opponent KK Mahender Reddy (from the Indian National Congress) yet again, this time with a huge margin of 68,219 votes.When the Telangana Joint Action Committee organised a rail-road-transport blockade as part of the movement, he spent a night with the agitating protestors to push for a consensus on the formation of Telangana and asked for a timeframe to finish implementation.On 15 October 2011, K.T.R. and other TRS leaders and activists were taken into preventive custody during another three-day rail roko agitation after police and paramilitary forces were deployed by the Kiran Kumar Reddy government to control the ongoing situation. They were released later. On 27 January 2013, K.T.R. courted arrest when he attempted to participate in the Samara Deeksha protest at Indira Park at Hyderabad.Soon after assuming office, Information Technology (IT) Minister K.T. Rama Rao briefed the Chief Minister on large-scale projects for a progressive Hyderabad in a review meeting of the Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR) Policy.In December 2014, along with the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation(TSIIC) Chairman, K.T.R. held discussions with the CEO of Smart City in Dubai with regard to developing Hyderabad under the ambit of ITIR.KT Rama Rao also called on Yusuff Ali M A, chairman of the Abu Dhabi-based Lulu Group who said that his company would invest Rs 2,500 crore in Telangana's FMCG domainfor 2015-16.