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Dr Yeduguri Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy (born 8 July 1949), also known as YSR, is the present chief Minister of State of Andhra Pradesh, India. He represents the Congress party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa constituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for four terms from Pulivendula constituency. He became very popular in the state after his 3 month long walking tour across several districts in Andhra Pradesh.

He graduated in medical science from Gulbarga University and practiced medicine for sometime in his native Kadapa District. The hospital his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. The YS 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 being run by YS family

YS Rajasekhara Reddy was elected as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh by the Legislature party of the Indian National Congress after the later won 185 seats of the Legislative Assembly in the May 2004 elections. [3] The Government initially consisted of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) which later withdrew its support owing to the lack of progress in the process of formation of a separate Telangana State