Chief ministership of N. T. Rama Rao

Chief ministership of N. T. Rama Rao
PartyTelugu Desam Party
First term
9 January 1983 – 16 August 1984
CabinetFirst
Election1983
Appointed byGovernor, K. C. Abraham
SeatGudivada
Second term
16 September 1984 – 9 March 1985
CabinetSecond
Election1984 coup
Appointed byGovernor, Shankar Dayal Sharma
SeatGudivada
Third term
9 March 1985 – 2 December 1989
CabinetThird
Election1985
Appointed byGovernor, Shankar Dayal Sharma
SeatHindupur
Fourth term
12 December 1994 – 1 September 1995
CabinetFourth
Election1994
Appointed byGovernor, Krishan Kant
SeatHindupur


Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (also known as N.T.R) served as Chief Minister of United Andhra Pradesh for four terms between 1983 and 1995. He was the first person to hold the office while not a member of the Indian National Congress, representing the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which he founded in 1982.

In August 1984, during his first term and while undergoing coronary heart surgery in the United States, Rama Rao was removed from office by Thakur Ram Lal, then Governor of Andhra Pradesh, and replaced with his finance minister, Nadendla Bhaskara Rao. Following his return to India, Rama Rao demonstrated majority support among members of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and was reinstated as Chief Minister in September 1984.

He was re-elected for a second term in 1985 and completed the full term. In the 1989 assembly elections, his party lost power, and he returned as Chief Minister in 1994 for his third and final term, in alliance with Left parties. In 1995, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, his son-in-law, assumed leadership of the TDP and became Chief Minister. Rama Rao died of a heart attack in 1996.

His policies and priorities during his terms as Chief Minister were the subject of discussion and debate among political analysts and commentators.

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