According to a statement issued by the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram the present finance minister of Andhra Pradesh K. Rosaiah will be sworn in as the acting Chief Minister of the state. This development came after the tragic demise of the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S.R. Reddy in a helicopter crash. The crash took place when the minister was on a tour of the rural districts of Andhra Pradesh along with several others.
Present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
The finance minister of Andhra Pradesh Konijeti Rosaiah was sworn in as the acting chief minster of the state on 3rd September, 2009. He is the senior most in the state cabinet and is 70 years of age. Born in July 1933 at Vemuru in Guntur district K. Rosaiah was an active participant of politics since his college days.
Background of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
K. Rosaiah has held various key positions prior to his appointment as the chief minster of Andhra Pradesh.
- During the years of 1968, 1974 and 1980 he was elected as a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was also elected as the leader of the opposition in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1978.
- In 1998 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Narasaraopet Constituency. Subsequently he served in several parliamentary committees.
- He was state transport minister during the chief minister ship of Dr. M. Channa Reddy in 1979.
- In 1980 he became the Minister for Transport, Housing and Commercial taxes in the Cabinet of Chief Minister T. Anjaiah.
- In 1982 he was the Minister for Home in the cabinet of Chief Minister K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy.
- In 1989 he was the minister for Finance, Power, Transport, Handlooms & Textiles, Higher education and Legislative Affairs in the cabinet of Dr. M. Channa Reddy
- He was the minister for Medical & Health, in the cabinet of N. Janardhan Reddy in 1991 in the cabinet of N. Janardhan Reddy.
- In 1992 he was the minister for Finance, Power, and Medical & Health in the cabinet of chief minister K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy.
- He was the president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee in between 1995-1997.
- Between 2005 to 2006 he was the Minister for Medical & Health in the cabinet of Dr.Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy
- From May 2004 to 2nd September 2009he was the minister for Finance, Planning and the legislative Affairs Departments.
- Sworn in as the acting Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on the 3rd of September, 2009.
