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Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy

Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was an Indian politician. He served as the 14th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2004 to 2009. Reddy was elected four terms to the Lok Sabha from Kadapa. He was also elected six terms to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Pulivendula. Over the course of his career, he won every election that he contested, either to Assembly or Lok Sabha.

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“Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy” enters the record as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rajasekhara, Reddy and Chief can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.